Example sentences of "[noun] came to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A confrontation came to a head on Nov. 18 between Benazir Bhutto , the former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) and of the People 's Democratic Alliance ( PDA ) coalition , and the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif . |
| 2 | They 've got a lovely surprise at the wedding came to a a hotel you know |
| 3 | Lachlan sneezed , and suddenly his crazy eyes came to a focus . |
| 4 | Before it struck home the chapter came to a hasty conclusion . |
| 5 | Consequently , once the northern campaign was resumed , on 20 April , the task of political reorganization came to a temporary halt . |
| 6 | The voices came to a halt directly above him . |
| 7 | If the yeast foods caused you to have an abdominal reaction , then you may find the weight loss came to a standstill this week . |
| 8 | The horse came to a stop before the porch , and the old servant got down and lugged her portmanteau out of the boot . |
| 9 | I removed the offending items , and before it had really begun Barny 's training programme came to a permanent halt . |
| 10 | ‘ Suddenly the programme came to a halt and it was announced that the King had died , ’ recalls John Rusby , who was a seven-year-old pupil at Cockton Hill Infant School , Bishop Auckland . |
| 11 | Then the carriage came to a curve in the track and the window could be seen no more . |
| 12 | At about a hundred yards , the car came to a halt . |
| 13 | Meredith came to a halt by the florists and stared mistrustfully into the window . |
| 14 | WHEN Al Haig 's brief and troubled spell at the State Department came to a sudden end in June 1982 , Ronald Reagan 's inspired choice to replace him was George Shultz . |
| 15 | By this route , indirect and long drawn out as it had been , the long history of capital punishment for murder came to a conclusion . |
| 16 | Internal dissension in the ILP caused by Communist sympathizers came to a head in August 1934 . |
| 17 | As a serious force , Greek tragedy came to a sudden end with the death(s) of ( Sophocles and ) Euripides ( 480–406 ) at the end of the fifth century . |
| 18 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 19 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 20 | The trail came to a dead end . |
| 21 | Mounting discontent came to a head over a professional insurance scheme which Fimbra attempted to force on all its members . |
| 22 | Her discontent came to a head with the beginning of spring . |
| 23 | The conflict between the king and the archbishop came to a head in the parliament of April 1341 . |
| 24 | PLAY came to a halt when Ken Beach injured his foot playing against Windsor Buzzards in Division One of the Clacton and District Table Tennis League . |
| 25 | The religious divisions in Sussex came to a head when Mary Tudor 's brief reign brought a return to hard-line Catholicism . |
| 26 | The simmering antagonism came to a head when the French Secret Service bombed the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in 1985 . |
| 27 | Almost immediately the truck came to a stop . |
| 28 | The sing-song accent came to a stop and he shook my hand and let himself out , a grey man in grey clothes following his own informal idiosyncratic path towards the truth . |
| 29 | A MOUNTAIN BIKE race for youngsters through woods came to a halt when when one rider spotted an unexpected hazard — a grenade . |
| 30 | The series of public meetings came to a climax on the weekend of 30 March with a large protest march , in which anti-nuclear groups participated along with local people , in Lettermacaward . |