Example sentences of "[adv] came to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young man stroked his chin , and then apparently came to a decision . |
| 2 | But Crosby 's future only came to a head this week when he reacted angrily to claims of an approach for Crystal Palace boss Steve Coppell . |
| 3 | With hindsight , there were ‘ rumblings ’ from some nursery nurses during the early stages of the course , but the matter only came to a head when a small group of nursery nurses made a formal complaint to a course tutor . |
| 4 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
| 5 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 6 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 7 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 8 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
| 9 | The spectacular rise to power throughout the 1920s suddenly came to a halt , betrayed by the leaders who had inspired it . |
| 10 | So he suddenly came to a halt at the bottom of this stairs as it turned the corner , with the bottom of the wardrobe rammed into his chest , pinning him to the wall . |
| 11 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 12 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 13 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 14 | As it approached the boundary of the hole , it slowed down , until it eventually came to a halt ! |
| 15 | The long sermon eventually came to an end and shortly afterwards the young couple left the chapel as man and wife , to the applause of those who had witnessed the ceremony . |
| 16 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 17 | The original alliance between Guntram and his nephew thus came to an end . |
| 18 | The liberal interlude , as they call it , where laws such as those over obscene publications were allowed to lie fallow , soon came to an end . |
| 19 | He 's never been particularly happy about being in the group and it just came to a head . ’ |
| 20 | The show just came to a standstill , and the audience did n't know what was happening . |
| 21 | One evening , three weeks later , things finally came to a head when Ned booted the former love of his life out of the basket onto the kitchen floor . |
| 22 | It finally came to a halt battered against the wall , leaving a shower of debris on the track . |
| 23 | He finally came to a halt and made a sweeping gesture with his arm designed to encompass the array of canvases on the wall . |
| 24 | The car finally came to a halt outside the house , and Jessamy looked around , a small frown drawing her brows together . |
| 25 | She finally came to a halt at the very far end of the garden . |
| 26 | When the car finally came to a halt , she looked straight ahead of her , not daring to look at him . |
| 27 | But the long haul through the muddy roads slowed the horses ' progress almost to a walk , and it was not until after five in the evening that the vehicle finally came to a halt outside the George inn in Mountsorrel , a little place some distance before the larger town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch . |
| 28 | The train chugged on northwards , further and further away from the enemy , until it finally came to a halt at Waverley station in Edinburgh . |
| 29 | When that finally came to a crisis I was within four days of complete paralysis . |
| 30 | When the issue finally came to a vote in the form of the February 1992 resolution , it reflected the bitterly partisan nature of the debate , with no Republican voting for the measure and 34 Democrats opposing it . |