Example sentences of "finally [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Nordern was free when Erika finally penetrated to her room , sitting at her desk behind a mound of reports . |
| 2 | After twice refusing , he finally agreed to the demand of a petition of over 10,000 names asking for a session of the inquiry to be held in Bristol . |
| 3 | It finally agreed to changes in the Data sheet in June 1982 , shortly before escalating concern among doctors forced the withdrawal of the drug altogether . |
| 4 | THE polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes said yesterday he had been within a week of death when he finally agreed to ‘ be sensible ’ and abandon his Antarctic expedition . |
| 5 | ‘ I finally agreed to it coming out in a limited edition . |
| 6 | The total of all claims finally amounted to £380 million . ) |
| 7 | The Yugo finally skidded to a halt upside down and straddling the middle lane . |
| 8 | Listeners were finally put out of their misery just before midday when broadcasters finally admitted to the April Fool . |
| 9 | She finally admitted to herself that even the risk of another snub was preferable to her growing anxiety about what lay ahead . |
| 10 | As the eight finalists finally got to their marks , the anticipation was high in the stadium , the tension heavy . |
| 11 | Donna finally got to her feet and wandered outside , glancing up at the board , noticing that her train was due in about five minutes . |
| 12 | ‘ The guilt finally got to her . ’ |
| 13 | With a happy smile on her extraordinarily beautiful face , and the memory of a man with blue eyes in her mind , she wandered back to where she had left her car , and Ellie being Ellie , who was totally incapable off passing anything that looked even remotely interesting , it was another hour before she finally got to it . |
| 14 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 15 | when I finally got to the start line at 9.41 am I started to pick my way through the crowd , with difficulty . |
| 16 | finally got to Monica and we thought that was enough , so we just wrote Monica , we thought they 'd accept that and they did n't . |
| 17 | While Treitschke demonstrates how economic union in the Zollverein finally led to German unity under Prussian hegemony , it is not clear that there was necessarily any kind of secret agenda from the outset , rather , the natural pre-eminence of Prussia combined with other historical events beyond her control . |
| 18 | Henry 's failure to attend and comply with imperial councils finally led to a declaration of forfeiture of his fiefs , and the title of Duke of Saxony was conferred upon Bernard of Anhalt , the younger of son of Albrecht the Bear . |
| 19 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 20 | He declared that the sane and sound advocacy of social democracy by the SDP would outlast all the various actionist ‘ will o ’ the wisps ' which , while apparently indicating easy roads to the promised land of social and economic emancipation , finally led to anarchical swamps and morasses ( SE 6 August 21 . ) . |
| 21 | Such a page , offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York , for £25,000 , finally led to James 's arrest , as the sheet was recognised by Dr Estelle Whelan of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Columbia University , to whom the Met had turned for a second opinion . |
| 22 | Lower and higher concentrations finally led to increased numbers of blue insertless plaques on the selection plates . |
| 23 | In nine of these cases it was the added development of gastrointestional symptoms that finally led to small bowel biopsy and the diagnosis of coeliac disease . |
| 24 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 25 | It finally bumped to a halt . |
| 26 | For example , demands for a national enquiry into schemes of social insurance and allied services led to the appointment of an inter-departmental committee of civil servants under William Beveridge ; their subsequent report in December 1942 had a major impact ; ‘ freedom from want ’ finally seemed to be a real possibility . |
| 27 | The alleged killers finally drove to a field near Burton Salmon , North Yorks , where they set fire to their car and escaped on foot . |
| 28 | When that finally came to a crisis I was within four days of complete paralysis . |
| 29 | One evening , three weeks later , things finally came to a head when Ned booted the former love of his life out of the basket onto the kitchen floor . |
| 30 | I finally came to the churchyard , ‘ Titty-Bottle Park ’ , where there were literally dozens of kids running about the tombstones . |