Sentence examples for came to breaking from inspiring English sources

This challenge was probably the closest we ever came to breaking up.

'That was very tearful and was as close as he came to breaking down,' said a participant.

David Wheater's second-half header, superbly saved by Charlton's Nick Pope, was the closest either side came to breaking the deadlock.

Tells about her marriage to Thunderbolt, and how close near it came to breaking up when she invited some of her church friends to the house for hymn singing.

The Union now talks optimistically of admitting the first new members, most of whom would be from Eastern Europe, by 2004.Mr Chirac's euphoria was understandable, for transcripts of parts of the leaders' discussions, obtained by The Economist, show how close the meeting came to breaking down (see article).

Jake Cassidy's drive wide, after being teed up by Liam Noble, was the closest Notts came to breaking the deadlock.

He went mad and punched me until the staff came to break it up.

When the time came to break up the Shaq-Kobe partnership, Buss wisely gambled on Bryant, trading away O'Neal.

"Everybody feels that the revolution came to break down everything, but the law is still there," he said.

Mr. Gannon joined a small group that watched mournfully last month when a demolition crew came to break the rest of the Petrel apart.

Authorities said Villanueva fled from the scene at speeds approaching 90 miles per hour when marked CHP cruisers came to break up the rally.