Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] to term " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma . |
| 2 | ‘ He has finally come to terms with being a United player . ’ |
| 3 | And an expert on the case believes she still has n't come to terms with what she 's done . |
| 4 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 5 | He confessed that he had finally come to terms with the fact that he was a homosexual , after a lifetime of denying it to himself . |
| 6 | At that time she had n't come to terms with them , ’ he recalls . |
| 7 | ‘ Over two packs a day , very foolish for a diabetic , but she had n't come to terms with the illness at that stage , and was quite defiant about a number of things , Professor Rankin tells me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My guess is that she had n't come to terms with the situation herself , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it . |
| 10 | We in the law , like other denizens of these blessed isles , have perforce come to terms with the disagreeable factor of inflation . |
| 11 | If they have both come to terms with their differences and can now work together successfully , then they are to be congratulated . |
| 12 | And yet we have n't come to terms with that . |
| 13 | I have n't come to terms with the bloke I killed yet , but when I do , it will be frightening . |