Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] a halt " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 2 | Sex between Henry and Elinor had come to a halt some four or five years ago and , from what Henry could remember about it , it was something that was better discontinued . |
| 3 | Before the stone had come to a halt it was pounced upon by the entire family who gleefully heaved the unfortunate lump of granite out through the back door and out of their lives ! |
| 4 | My ritual cataloguing had come to a halt . |
| 5 | The landlord had come to a halt . |
| 6 | Both Glovers had come to a halt now , mesmerised despite themselves . |
| 7 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 8 | Guido had come to a halt , turning round to face her so that she almost ran right into him . |
| 9 | It was n't until they had come to a halt that she had felt able to raise her eyes from the floor and look at the two men standing by the alter rail . |
| 10 | Her eyes on where to place her feet , she failed to notice that Travis had come to a halt , and cannoned right into him . |
| 11 | The coach had drawn to a halt outside the Theater an der Wien . |
| 12 | It had drawn to a halt , and above the slapping of the water Lefevre could discern obscure sounds of commotion as the vehicle rocked on its springs . |
| 13 | The vehicle had slowed to a halt almost opposite the front door but on the other side of the round lawn which constituted the carriage sweep . |
| 14 | The British actors ' union Equity had called for a halt to Australian TV actors appearing in British pantomimes . |
| 15 | He had screeched to a halt in the residents ' parking bay in an unimpressed Hereford Road , let himself in , banged on his own door and , keeping his distance , ordered Jacqui to go off to the pictures for the afternoon . |
| 16 | Within seconds he had screeched to a halt at the medical centre , and her fanciful ideas had vanished in the haste of their rush to help . |
| 17 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that the war had ground to a halt while the commanders-in-chief of both armies languished in their respective prisons , the young sprig confronting him obviously took his guard duty seriously . |
| 19 | The process had ground to a halt by early 1990 [ see p. 37199 ] , largely as a result of Likud 's hesitancy to proceed with a first-stage meeting of Egyptian , Israeli and United States officials without first receiving certain US " guarantees " ( the first-stage meeting was supposed to discuss a second-stage Israeli-Palestinian meeting in Cairo on the proposed elections ) . |
| 20 | The first meeting of the SNC opened in the disused Cambodian embassy in Bangkok on Sept. 17 , but after two days the talks had ground to a halt , the main stumbling block being the appointment of a SNC chair . |
| 21 | The first meeting of the SNC convened in the disused Cambodian embassy in Bangkok on mid-September , but after two days the talks had ground to a halt , with disagreements over the appointment of a Chair . |
| 22 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 23 | The horse was almost upon her and she shut her eyes , the better to see when it had reined to a halt . |