Example sentences of "[pers pn] eventually [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sort of cat and mouse game followed , especially going up the long hill , but we eventually settled on a dead heat . |
| 2 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 3 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 4 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 5 | His choice had more than its share of steps and when he eventually arrived on a pleasant terrace overlooking the harbour , a pounding in his chest reminded him once more that he was middle-aged . |
| 6 | ‘ It eventually culminated in a murderous attack , the eventual brutality of which surprised even you . |