Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the pressure is on to respond to an event after it happens , the client will then judge your professional competence . |
| 2 | Having travelled the ‘ road from revolutionary elitism to proletarian populism ’ , James ' American sojourn was about to come to an end but , before it did , he would write ‘ Mariners , Renegades and Castaways ’ in which he expressed his poetic view of the world through an interpretation of the works of Herman Melville . |
| 3 | Honestly , the scene he made , you 'd have thought the world was about to come to an end . |
| 4 | But his life of lace and glamour is about to come to an end . |
| 5 | TWELVE YEARS OF WEARING GREEN DUNGAREES ARE ABOUT TO COME TO AN END FOR HOMEBASE STAFF WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW UNIFORM . |