Example sentences of "[noun prp] have come to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 2 | Her eyes on where to place her feet , she failed to notice that Travis had come to a halt , and cannoned right into him . |
| 3 | For it had been when Ryan had died , three years ago now , that the situation between her and Jake had come to a head . |
| 4 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 5 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 6 | The BMW had come to a stop and the boy was climbing out , his Molotov cocktail now lit and ready . |
| 7 | Both Glovers had come to a halt now , mesmerised despite themselves . |
| 8 | Sex between Henry and Elinor had come to a halt some four or five years ago and , from what Henry could remember about it , it was something that was better discontinued . |
| 9 | We might bc excused for considering that as far as the 18th century was concerned , mining in the Coniston Fells had come to a standstill , and indeed it might have , but negotiations were still being carried out . |
| 10 | Guido had come to a halt , turning round to face her so that she almost ran right into him . |
| 11 | Defending solicitor Bob Emuss said that problems for Mrs. White had come to a head last February . |