Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their on-off relationship , which seemed to come to a sudden end two years ago , was re-kindled earlier this year with a romantic holiday to Mauritius . |
| 2 | Yet he must contain the depths of his feelings , his hatred , his fervent wish to see his stepson come to a sorry end . |
| 3 | The career that looked so promising in 1974 has evidently come to a premature end . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , ’ the chief inspector went on , ‘ I 've come to a dead end . ’ |
| 5 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
| 6 | The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible . |
| 7 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 8 | The Nigerian adventure had come to an abrupt end with the arrival of a new military government and a ban on all imports . |
| 9 | The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl . |
| 10 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 11 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | He came to a macabre end . |
| 13 | First of all , you would have to get there by traveling in imaginary time and not care that your history in real time came to a sticky end . |
| 14 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |
| 15 | They were hollowed-out places , but always came to a dead end . ’ |
| 16 | Delaney realised they were lost when finally , after innumerable turnings in the maze of corridors , they came to a dead end . |
| 17 | But this too came to a dead end . |
| 18 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 19 | But he came to a dead end with that jeweller . ’ |
| 20 | The trail came to a dead end . |
| 21 | He came to a bad end . ’ |
| 22 | David Lawrence , whose first overseas Test came to a tragic end when he broke his kneecap while bowling . |
| 23 | In 1875 Edith Arendrup 's marriage came to a tragic end . |
| 24 | On March 29 1985 , Jose Manuel 's inquiry came to a brutal end . |
| 25 | Last week , the case came to a sudden end . |
| 26 | WHEN Al Haig 's brief and troubled spell at the State Department came to a sudden end in June 1982 , Ronald Reagan 's inspired choice to replace him was George Shultz . |
| 27 | As a serious force , Greek tragedy came to a sudden end with the death(s) of ( Sophocles and ) Euripides ( 480–406 ) at the end of the fifth century . |
| 28 | Her swift rise to ministerial office — and public notoriety for blunt speaking — came to a sudden end when she was forced to resign in December 1988 after provoking a catastrophic slump in the British egg market by saying on television that ‘ most ’ egg production was infected by salmonella . |
| 29 | THE heatwave came to a dramatic end yesterday with an incredible downpour of rain in South-west England . |
| 30 | It 's working ! ’ and it was , but it all came to a crashing end because the matron on duty that night called the cops . |