Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] came to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little progress was made and matters came to a head when Rigby told Gedge she wanted Solowka out of the band . |
| 2 | She says about herself and Medau : ‘ I think it was 1940 when Medau came my way — Molly , her mother and Edith came to a League of Health and Beauty group , and Molly gave us a Medau class . |
| 3 | Verbal abuse in the streets , broken windows and ‘ Russians go home ’ graffiti are common , and things came to a head recently in Perleberg , not far from what used to be the West/East German border . |
| 4 | The curious union of stability and movement came to a head in the formation of new , austere , but centralized orders in the early twelfth century . |
| 5 | More rain hit the windowpanes , and Leith came to a decision . |
| 6 | To paraphrase the last chapter of Sellar and Yeatman 's classic 1066 And All That , West Indies were thus clearly top nation , and History came to a . |
| 7 | The 700,000-strong majority Russian population in the Dnestr valley planned to reinforce its September unilateral secession declaration by holding elections on Nov. 25 to a " Transdnestr Republic " Supreme Soviet , but tensions came to a head on Nov. 2 following rumours that polling was being brought forward to Nov. 4 . |
| 8 | But matters came to a head following her surprise defeat by the 83rd-ranked Veronika Martinek , of Czechoslovakia , in Hilton Head two weeks later . |
| 9 | A letter to The Times of 1923 , for example , drew attention to ‘ the dangers arising from the Americanization of the British Empire from the excessive number of American motion pictures shown ’ , but things came to a head in 1924 . |
| 10 | As Ross came to a halt just inside the open french windows , their silk curtains billowing softly in the light breeze , the dark evening sky outside provided a dramatic background to his tall , broad-shouldered figure . |
| 11 | Well , I say a small town , it was more of a village really , but I live in Mannheim now , since my parents died … anyway , when things came to a head , I failed to support her , though I agreed with her really — up to a point that is , there were some things I disagreed with her about . |
| 12 | Last summer saw violence at Blackbird Leys as things came to a head … with petrol bombs and bricks . |
| 13 | When orders came to a new appointment there were regrets all round . |
| 14 | When Greg came to a halt outside Meadowbanks the scene was lurid , gloomy , terrifying . |
| 15 | As events came to a head , there were changes in the supervisory structure , with popular supervisors demoted and unpopular men promoted . |