Example sentences of "[noun prp] come to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meredith came to a halt by the florists and stared mistrustfully into the window . |
| 2 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 3 | The religious divisions in Sussex came to a head when Mary Tudor 's brief reign brought a return to hard-line Catholicism . |
| 4 | Lucenzo came to a halt . |
| 5 | Curtis came to a decision . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then the Land-Rover came to a halt beside a rough jetty made of stacked boulders tied down with fencing wire , and there , backed against the cliff a short way above us , was the cottage . |
| 8 | Agitation by Serbs in Croatia came to a head with the unilateral proclamation on Oct. 1 by the so-called Serbian National Council of an " autonomous region " comprising those districts where they were in the majority . |
| 9 | Showdown At Glastonbury comes to a close with the argument still raging — is it a blissful summer gathering or slovenly layabouts causing havoc in the countryside ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nu commented , ‘ The public got fed up with Communists ’ rowdyism. … press and public do not take the incident seriously' ; however , five days later all public services in Rangoon came to a standstill at AFPFL behest and most shops and bazaars were closed . |
| 12 | It is at the point in Scale 2 , where Hilton starts to emphasise this , that he uses the image of the ladder to look back at what has gone before , and to point the way ahead : The rest of the book illuminates the subtle inner movements of the personality in which man engages with the power of God to come to a knowledge of his being , the " wirkyng in a soul " when Scale 2 is more engaging as a work which marshals literary resources to illuminate Christian mystical theology . |
| 13 | Lacuna came to a stop behind her , and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender . |
| 14 | When similar problems arose some time ago your predecessor Inspector Pinder and PC Shaw from Cabus came to a Parish Council meeting to advise us on what steps could be taken and there was some improvement . |
| 15 | Raynor came to a stop outside a thick , low door set into the wall , and stood for a moment looking at it , as if summoning up some inner resolve . |
| 16 | Mr Lewis came to a halt and for a moment seemed at a loss as to how he should go on . |
| 17 | D'Arcy came to a decision . |
| 18 | More rain hit the windowpanes , and Leith came to a decision . |
| 19 | She and o Pappous came to a decision . |
| 20 | When Greg came to a halt outside Meadowbanks the scene was lurid , gloomy , terrifying . |
| 21 | Karelius came to a decision . |
| 22 | White-faced , panting , dismayed , Cheryl came to a stop . |
| 23 | It looks as though March comes to a close on an emotionally chilling note because the revolutionary planet Uranus , passing through your own birth sign in April , is adversely aspected by the Sun in Aries on the 30th . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Chris Claridge , deputy chief executive of Highland Regional Council and the closest Inverness comes to a Eurocrat , counselled caution . |
| 25 | Naidoo reiterated that the NSC was expecting Sacu to come to a decision and could not ease it for them by offering guarantees of future tours . |
| 26 | Charlie came to a halt outside 147 Chelsea Terrace . |
| 27 | And like I started doing it , I 'll read it out in English I started writing it in French came to a word I did n't know and thought ah leave it ! |
| 28 | A protracted investigation into fraud at the Banco Ambrosiano came to a close on April 16 when Carlo De Benedetti , president of Olivetti and of the holding company CIR ( Compagnie Industriali Riunite ) , was sentenced to six years and four months in prison . |