Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] eventually [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The burglary of the offices of the Democratic National Committee was a harebrained and quite unnecessary enterprise and the case against the president that eventually forced his resignation could never have been constructed without the re-installation of recording devices in the Oval Office . |
| 2 | On reaching Worsley the canal tunnelled into the sandstone cliff to reach the coal workings some three-quarters of a mile inside the hill , where it divided into channels that eventually reached a length of several miles . |
| 3 | He was , we were told , a butcher from Thaxted who joined a gang of baddies and eventually landed up in York jail , where he was hanged for horse stealing . |
| 4 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 5 | They were tested at speed , with weights and eventually taken apart . |
| 6 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 7 | The amateur radio enthusiast is quoted as saying he considered destroying the tape but eventually decided to hand it to The Sun . |
| 8 | It would be just as mistaken to assume that pensions legislation was always indicative of concessionary responses to mounting pressure on behalf of the particular groups that eventually benefited . |
| 9 | Four years later , however , a science programme on Australian radio accused McBride of scientific fraud and it was this accusation that eventually led local health authorities in New South Wales to begin the medical tribunal proceedings . |
| 10 | The bank started to unravel in 1988 when BCCI executives were arrested in Florida and eventually convicted of laundering cocaine profits for Colombian drug barons . |
| 11 | It , too , split with the Roman orthodoxy and eventually coalesced into the Coptic Church . |
| 12 | Ibn Fayoud fiddled with the car keys and eventually managed to start the engine . |
| 13 | It meant that Ince , who again succeeded in filling the void left by the absence of Robson , and Phelan could hunt down Keane and eventually run him out of the game . |
| 14 | Then the cholesterol is taken into the liver and eventually removed from the body . |
| 15 | In 1957 there were still some 300,000 Bretons but the breed was heavily crossed with the similarly coloured but unrelated Friesian , in much the same way as the red-and-white Bretons had been crossed with Shorthorns and eventually replaced by the Meuse-Rhine-Yssel . |
| 16 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 17 | While Gedge was back in his bedroom strumming with Solowka , a group called Years grew out of Sen and eventually merged with the Clichés to become the Chameleons . |
| 18 | She rummaged around in a handbag as big as my trumpet case and eventually found a length of till receipt from a grocery store . |
| 19 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 20 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 21 | Copied ad nauseum , Whitfield 's funkrock workouts became a monotonous grind , while Bell 's crisp , quasi-classical arranging was caricatured by lesser talents and eventually reduced to slush . |
| 22 | Far from being impossibly Utopian , these attitudes were a survival necessity and eventually flowered into the extraordinarily peaceful and creative Minoan civilisation of ancient Crete . |
| 23 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 24 | They were detained over two hours and eventually released . |
| 25 | The union had already moved from its fine premises in Buckingham Street , Strandon 22 September 1894 as an economy measure and eventually found a more permanent home , along with the Green 's Home branch , at the Maritime Hall , West India Dock Road , London E. where it remained until Head Office was moved to St.George 's Hall , Westminster Bridge Road , London S.E. in May 1921 . |
| 26 | The tour was a disaster , Newcastle lost by two goals to Ambrosiana , the team that eventually transformed into Inter Milan , and were thrashed 8–1 by the crack Czech team FC Slovak . |
| 27 | The sailor would hold the egg to his mouth and let the albumin form a string that eventually extended to the large intestine . |
| 28 | Paul Hopkinson was born on June 29 1906 , the son of a former professor of archaeology who became a clergyman and eventually retired as Archdeacon of West Morland . |
| 29 | She moved from handbags through gifts to the flower shop and eventually reached a men 's outfitting department where , suddenly , she saw Edward . |
| 30 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |