Example sentences of "[adv] came to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 2 | Despite such claims , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that in both the USA and the UK , the audio-visual movement rarely came to grips with the need for an elaborated theory going beyond the use of audio-visual materials as decorative additions to the traditional lesson . |
| 3 | Conflict was deferred by the attempt to reach agreement along the lines of ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ ( Mankan kó0kan ) ( i.e. Manchuria for Russia and Korea for Japan ) , but the two countries eventually came to blows in 1904 over the failure of Russian troops to withdraw on schedule from Manchuria . |
| 4 | When Michael saw the happy faces on Christmas Day , the food that seemed inexhaustible and the merriment his gifts had brought , he finally came to terms with himself . |
| 5 | She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it . |
| 6 | 75 What neither the men nor the resisting women ever came to terms with was the completely new skill represented by monotyping . |
| 7 | However , the parents of 12-year-old victim Tim Parry — hanging on to life by a thread in a Liverpool hospital yesterday came to terms with the fact that he is unlikely to survive . |
| 8 | So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus . |
| 9 | Nearly came to blows . |
| 10 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
| 11 | My grandmother paid for it — she never really came to terms with Mum 's moving abroad , and I think that was her way of making sure I never lost the other half of my inheritance . ’ |
| 12 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |
| 13 | The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other . |
| 14 | They considered the outburst as less serious than the disgraceful row at Cambridge University earlier in the season when Ramprakash launched a disgusting four letter tirade against the students ' Marcus Wight , and he almost came to blows with John Emburey when the stand-in skipper intervened . |
| 15 | We almost came to blows . |
| 16 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 17 | His successor but one , Wallia , made an attempt to lead his people across to Africa , but failed , and instead came to terms with the Roman leader Constantius , for whom he campaigned against the Vandals and Alans in Spain . |
| 18 | John and Elizabeth Newson found in their 1976 study Seven Years Old in the Home Environment , that two-thirds of their sample of Nottingham seven-year-olds fought sometimes or often with their siblings , and half of these ( girls as well as boys ) actually came to blows fairly regularly . |
| 19 | Indeed , so violent was their hatred for one another that , in a much-quoted scene , they actually came to blows when they met by chance on the railway platform at Mukden . |
| 20 | Last season Neath never came to terms with the loss of Rowland Phillips and Mark Jones to rugby league , and this season they have done no better in this regard ; the back row , once the fulcrum of the entire Neath effort , has no longer been an area of strength . |
| 21 | He never came to terms with losing her , or the fact that people he 'd trusted cheated him . ’ |
| 22 | They never came to terms with the speed of Dalian Atkinson ; neither did Dean Saunders . |