Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] come to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Sir John Stokes , the bristle-brushed old gent for whom ‘ the twentieth century has been a mistake ’ , sat in the Commons representing the Birmingham dormitories of Halesowen and Stourbridge , where the closest most of his supporters had come to a foxhunt was a roadside cocktail lounge called the Whip and Saddle . |
| 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 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 4 | The carriage had come to a standstill |
| 5 | Recently matters had come to a head . |
| 6 | My ritual cataloguing had come to a halt . |
| 7 | This issue had come to a head in July , with the tabling of a no-confidence motion in parliament , and the live broadcasting of the July 18-20 debate on national television . |
| 8 | For it had been when Ryan had died , three years ago now , that the situation between her and Jake had come to a head . |
| 9 | The BMW had come to a stop and the boy was climbing out , his Molotov cocktail now lit and ready . |
| 10 | Both Glovers had come to a halt now , mesmerised despite themselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The landlord had come to a halt . |
| 13 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |
| 14 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Normally there was a background hum of noise , but now it was as though the entire city had come to a standstill , halted and muffled beneath a thick , enveloping blanket of fog . |
| 17 | My dreams of training an owl had come to a standstill with Barny , and then another standstill when I could n't find a bird to buy . |
| 18 | In the moments immediately following the arm injury to Craig Chalmers in Saturday 's international match at Twickenham ( see picture below ) , Dewi Morris summoned assistance from the touchline even before play had come to a standstill , while another England player also paid more attention to Chalmers than to the ball . |
| 19 | Matters regarding the Grammar School had come to a head . |
| 20 | Before the stone had come to a halt it was pounced upon by the entire family who gleefully heaved the unfortunate lump of granite out through the back door and out of their lives ! |
| 21 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 22 | Guido had come to a halt , turning round to face her so that she almost ran right into him . |
| 23 | Defending solicitor Bob Emuss said that problems for Mrs. White had come to a head last February . |
| 24 | The Spratly Islands were claimed by three ASEAN members — Brunei , Malaysia and the Philippines — and by China , Taiwan and Vietnam ; the dispute had come to a head in early 1992 after China and Vietnam awarded contracts separately to Western companies to drill for oil in the disputed archipelago [ see p. 38768 ] . |