Example sentences of "[vb -s] to a halt " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guitars stagger all over the place , the singer hacks his throat raw and the song stutters to a halt in a welter of feedback . |
| 2 | As the coats separate to take a flight of stairs each , there 's a screech of tyres round the corner and a big old-style Granada lurches to a halt behind them . |
| 3 | The bomb scare just 2 days before Christmas , brought Milton keynes to a halt . |
| 4 | A locomotive complete with its iron curtsey of cowcatcher slithers to a halt , bringing Jack Palance , the Apache chief 's son , home from schooling back East . |
| 5 | THE LONDON Film Festival — the largest ever mounted — grinds to a halt on Sunday with a performance of Ettore Scola 's What Time Is It ? |
| 6 | Instead of finding sudden problems you might find that progress slowly grinds to a halt . |
| 7 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 8 | ‘ Costly disaster ’ grinds to a halt |
| 9 | Compare the problems in Glen Nevis where in summer traffic all but grinds to a halt , to see the possible outcome . |
| 10 | There is the danger that , when we get to college , this grinds to a halt when there is no one to tell you to do it . |
| 11 | When they refuse it , the operation grinds to a halt . |
| 12 | An up local slows to a halt at the signals on the edge of the woods . |
| 13 | Like a rhino close up , it skids to a halt , grrrr , grrrr , yellow and black teeth . |
| 14 | It screeches to a halt beside me , three guys get out , blindfold me , tie me hand and foot and bundle me into the van . |
| 15 | At a place known in advance only to a few , the motorcade comes to a halt . |
| 16 | International : Easter prayers answered as Etna lava flow comes to a halt |
| 17 | As it continues to expand the speed drops and the expansion eventually comes to a halt . |
| 18 | PS We later hear how my daughter , bridge hopping bare-footed , gets on a Tube train which comes to a halt over the river just as we paddle beneath . |
| 19 | It is frustrating on occasions when a side puts together an exciting movement of forwards interpassing to be concluded by a piece of driving play which eventually comes to a halt and the opposition get the put-in . |
| 20 | Otherwise the War Wagon is moved as indicated and if it collides with troops it comes to a halt and a round of hand-to-hand combat follows just as if the War Wagon had charged . |
| 21 | The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt . |
| 22 | The companies say that if they are not allowed to produce HCFCs and HFCs for long enough to make a return on their investment , users will face a crisis when CFC manufacturing comes to a halt in the late 1990s . |
| 23 | It creaks to a halt by the platform like a middle-aged jogger at the end of his first half-marathon . |
| 24 | Boys being boys , ( What , you mean sexist tossers ? — Female Ed ) the interview crashes to a halt as Galliano grapple for a peep of her pins . |