Example sentences of "[noun sg] eventually [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bucephalus eventually died of wounds at thirty years of age , in 326 BC , following Alexander 's war with the Indian king , Porus . |
| 2 | The remains of the iron overshot water wheel eventually went for scrap in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | All the work eventually fell on Gavin shoulders . |
| 4 | The first phase of the process eventually began on June 17 at Stormont ( the parliament building ) in Belfast , with leaders of the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland meeting , in closed session , for the first time since 1975 . |
| 5 | The young German eventually got in front with seven laps remaining when Senna 's McLaren appeared to develop a technical problem , Schumacher squeezing past at the final hairpin . |
| 6 | The year-long strike eventually resulted in defeat for the NUM , due , not least , to the police success in enabling working miners to continue to enter pits and strikebreakers to return to work . |
| 7 | The title eventually went to Chris Patton who defeated Danny Green 3 & 1 in the final . |
| 8 | The dynamic forces within society and in the economy eventually came into conflict with a national polity which sought to avoid change . |
| 9 | Despite Philip 's passionate interest in natural history , his father insisted that he should have a recognized profession , and the choice eventually fell upon medicine . |
| 10 | Fans had to wait almost year before the song eventually appeared on vinyl . |
| 11 | Although the bishopric of Nin was abolished and the Latin rite eventually triumphed in Croatia , Grgur Ninski 's assertion of the individuality of the Croat nation provided a spiritual sanction to Tomislav 's claims to kingship . |
| 12 | Negotiations for an estimated £1,500 million ( approximately equivalent to $2,700 million ) arms sale from the United Kingdom agreed in September 1988 [ see p. 36558 ] were initially held up following the Malaysian government 's request for extra landing rights at London 's Heathrow airport for the Malaysian Airline System , to which the UK government eventually acceded in March 1989 , leaving the way open for individual contracts to be signed . |
| 13 | His army eventually arrived in Bordeaux , but it achieved little , and Gaunt lost almost half his men as they marched over the Massif Central in winter . |
| 14 | The Convention eventually came into force in September 1953 , when it received the necessary 10 ratifications . |
| 15 | A dynastic struggle conducted under the hovering threat of Turkish occupation eventually led to Ferdinand of Habsburg gaining the throne , but his effective authority existed over only a fragment of Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia . |