Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to blows " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nearly came to blows . |
| 3 | For example , when he was invited to visit Bridgnorth ( Shropshire ) in early July , rival crowds made alternative bonfires , " where about one they drank Dr Sacheverell 's health and the other his confusion " , with the inevitable result that the two groups eventually fell to blows . |
| 4 | The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We almost came to blows . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |