adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
settle sth finally/eventually
▪ The case was finally settled by the Appeal Court.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
agree
▪ It was eventually agreed that the company would be allowed an overdraft facility of £135,000, reducing to £120,000 after three weeks.
▪ While suspicious that somehow management was trying to trick them, union officials eventually agreed to go along with the program.
▪ The company eventually agreed to settle for $ 600, 000.
▪ Fortunately Roy was only toying with me, eventually agreeing to participate in good spirit.
▪ More studies were done and the carrier eventually agreed to pay $ 300, 000.
▪ A £500,000 deal was eventually agreed to bring his scoring talents to the North-East.
arrive
▪ The prospect of eventually arriving at such a gruesomely underwhelming destination makes me determined to enjoy every moment on the train.
▪ Yes, I know much of it does work and is done to improve whatever signal does eventually arrive at the house.
▪ After some Ministry prevarication Tabakov eventually arrived, but only after the cast had assembled and with one day of rehearsal lost.
▪ The Ouvéa made its way south, eventually arriving at Whangarei on 28 June.
▪ Whatever the initial conditions, all trajectories will eventually arrive on the attractor.
▪ Increasingly, the distinction is being blurred and fusion will eventually arrive in some form.
▪ Nevertheless, the entertaining A44 through the Cotswolds is fun and I eventually arrive at the famous factory.
▪ But he was uninterrupted in his journey, eventually arriving at a vantage point near the Monument.
become
▪ Raving and thrashing about, the victim becomes gradually weaker and, if lucky, may eventually become unconscious.
▪ It was a three-part story, and eventually became another book.
▪ Iron boats eventually became cheaper to build as the technology for iron production improved.
▪ Become a lion tamer? Eventually become emperor?
▪ First, older people do not form an exclusive group, but one of which every individual will eventually become a member.
▪ Gentry eventually became planning director and assistant to the city manager for special projects, before leaving city employment in 1987.
▪ She won, and eventually became party leader.
▪ The deposits eventually become pressed under sedimentary weight into stone.
bring
▪ Ironically, it would be Cats that would eventually bring his first marriage to an end.
▪ The relentless push and pull of coevolutionary life eventually brings into its game the abiotic stuff of the universe.
▪ Male speaker I agree, and I hope Gloucestershire will eventually bring in a legal budget.
▪ The fish that originally sold for a penny eventually brought 5000 rupees.
▪ If we pumped long enough we could eventually bring the potentiometric surface below the top of the aquifer.
▪ It would eventually bring him untold riches.
come
▪ Most students find that the first job does eventually come along, and even that elusive Equity card is attainable.
▪ But I did learn things about people and eventually came into my own socially.
▪ A few phone calls later we confirmed that surface-emitting lasers would eventually come down to the size and efficiency required.
▪ The conversation eventually came around to what I was currently working on.
▪ Good may eventually come out of evil.
▪ Then Thornton went back home to Arkansas, but eventually came back to try again.
▪ As it continues to expand the speed drops and the expansion eventually comes to a halt.
▪ In fact, as Steves eventually came to realize, they were seeing things that often elude travelers who spend far more.
decide
▪ Nothing much happens, and you eventually decide to cut.
▪ The city eventually decided that ambulance service, street sweeping, and maintenance of median strips were better handled by public employees.
▪ He decided eventually that to embrace Buddhism would be to plunge into a world too culturally alien.
▪ But many eventually decided to set up offices outside their homes.
▪ She decided eventually on slices of melon, the kind that was red inside with black seeds ....
▪ To help him resolve it, he brought in General Joseph McNarney, who eventually decided on a middle way.
▪ Perhaps it was just purple eye-shadow lavishly applied, he decided eventually.
▪ He eventually decided against this but did move to take unnecessary letters out of many words.
die
▪ We know that all of us will eventually die from disease, natural disaster, accidents or whatever.
▪ The voluntary muscles begin to twitch uncontrollably and eventually die off.
▪ When he eventually died, Alexander built a city in Bucephalus' honour and died himself shortly afterwards.
▪ The black farming colonies eventually died out.
▪ The patient described by Boustany etal had a cytochrome c oxidase deficiency and a long illness before she eventually died of peritonitis.
▪ Since there is no cure, the others are expected to also eventually die from their disease.
▪ He eventually dies in the ambulance, on the way to a hospital that isn't closed.
▪ If the algae do not return, the reefs will stop growing and eventually die.
end
▪ I feel angry because I know even this war will eventually end.
▪ This bull market will end, as every bull market eventually ends.
▪ The Ouse takes a slow and meandering course eastwards ending eventually at the Wash.
▪ Then Conley got mixed up with Charlie Keating and somehow lost millions of dollars, eventually ending up bankrupt.
▪ The firm reckons that discounters will eventually end up cannibalising each other's market share rather than damaging the bigger chains.
▪ But like all cycles, this one will eventually end.
fall
▪ Strategic ambiguity has its uses, but a policy of temporizing may eventually fall short.
▪ He captured a beautiful woman, who, although his prisoner, eventually fell in love with him.
▪ They became friendly and eventually fell in love.
▪ Because of the problems with false prophecy, the gift of prophecy itself eventually fell into disuse and sometimes disrepute.
▪ She eventually fell in love with a lawyer, but her father objected to this match.
▪ Without the 400, 000-gallon-a-day operation, the ship-shaped center could eventually fall into the bay.
▪ All the work eventually fell on Gavin shoulders.
▪ Left alone, even the most troublesome among us will eventually fall over dead.
find
▪ As I think I said, such noises as I have experienced have eventually found explanations.
▪ Slowly she replaced the receiver, wondering why did the past always eventually find you-sometime?
▪ By now over 70 elements have been identified in the stars, and no doubt the remainder will be found eventually.
▪ By this means, if there is a proof, we shall eventually find it somewhere along the list.
▪ Yeadon had eventually found the King Pot inlet back in 1986.
▪ Iron Arrow eventually found itself dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.
▪ A donor was eventually found and Sally's battle to live goes on.
▪ Everything he had said I found eventually in written form.
force
▪ Diehard optimists, like Mr Pynzenyk, say that hyperinflation and economic collapse will eventually force the country to its senses.
▪ Rising public outrage eventually forced Intel to reverse its policy and offer replacement chips to anyone who wanted one.
▪ However, the market women received enormous popular support and the municipal government was eventually forced to capitulate.
▪ Officials expect the plan will eventually force illegal immigrants to use routes outside the 66-mile San Diego sector.
▪ It was eventually forced to reinstate them.
▪ Court orders and other government actions eventually forced desegregation of both.
▪ Barschel was eventually forced to resign and committed suicide.
▪ The giggling spread like wildfire, and eventually forced the closing of some schools.
get
▪ The hospital telephonist eventually gets hold of the surgical registrar.
▪ Within a year, he eventually got the proto-reef soup headed in the right direction.
▪ But things did get eventually get better.
▪ We eventually got our way, but the negotiations took so long it set us back a whole year.
▪ They eventually got them off me with baby oil, and almost took my fingers with them.
▪ The founders eventually got their wish.
▪ But it never amounts to much and eventually gets damped out by the frame.
▪ Keep breaking the project down until you eventually get to an easily managed series of individual tasks.
lead
▪ This can have the effect of accelerating the build-up of atheroma which in turn eventually leads to heart disease.
▪ This memory was the spark that eventually led to the deal.
▪ Marx believed that the following aspects of capitalist society would eventually lead to the proletariat developing into a class for itself.
▪ His embrace of recorded music over live performances would eventually lead to a shift in the role of records on radio.
▪ This creates debates which eventually lead to action.
▪ But in your case at least you know that all the hard work will eventually lead to something out of the ordinary.
▪ Such abilities and equipment gave them the opportunity to make the big evolutionary breakthrough which eventually lead to Homosapiens.
leave
▪ He would become so uncomfortable that he would eventually leave the table and make some more coffee!
▪ Finding no evidence, the investigators eventually left.
▪ He eventually left his boat and was able to grab one breath of air before being forced down.
▪ That will eventually leave a few very big players with even more clout.
▪ Brecker eventually left the group, which carried on under Mike Mainieri's leader ship.
▪ A scientific conception seems demeaning because nothing is eventually left for which autonomous man can take credit.
▪ But it soon became evident who was the quicker and Somervail eventually left all the racing to Jim.
▪ We eventually left seven hours later with our ears ringing.
lose
▪ They eventually lost that game although the 3-1 scoreline doesn't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances.
▪ The injured soldier eventually loses the sight of his eye.
▪ Current drugs can slow the disease but eventually lose their effectiveness.
▪ A dominant party can eventually lose support and become a competitor in a multiparty system.
▪ If you do not take these precautions, you may eventually lose some irreplaceable programs or data.
▪ How did the problematic modern assumptions eventually lose their power to convince after several hundred years of dominance?
▪ If you continue to work without leaving, you will eventually lose your right to claim constructive dismissal.
▪ A lot of times, teams are making multiplayer deals for guys you think you may eventually lose to expansion anyway.
reach
▪ The ironwork was cast in Dudley by Benjamin Gibbon and transported by water, eventually reaching the banks of the Stroudwater canal.
▪ You eventually reach an Origin technician.
▪ As the winding current is increased, however, the flux density in the iron eventually reaches its saturation level.
▪ If this macroscopic change altered the microscopic laws, these laws would eventually reach a form capable of supporting an H-theorem.
▪ Once you eventually reach the products the nightmare begins to fade.
▪ His case eventually reached the U.S.
▪ They eventually reach her via the markets in Liverpool.
▪ The effect eventually reaches every business and every individual in the society, not just those involved in international commerce.
return
▪ Generally speaking, racing / homing pigeons will eventually return home.
▪ They then migrate into the lymphoid tissue and eventually return to the blood circulation.
▪ Most of them eventually return to the company, however.
▪ Natural resources that are extracted or harvested to power our economy must eventually return to nature.
▪ Their power is given but never owned, and they must eventually return to the One who gives it.
▪ The drawing suggests that an apparently normal decision eventually returns the decider to his starting point.
▪ He helps the oppressed and is eventually returned to Parliament.
settle
▪ This larva eventually settles down on a rock, usually chalk or limestone, and grows the two valves of its shell.
▪ His epileptic client eventually settled his case against the company for a confidential amount.
▪ I suppose I could have settled eventually to general practice or applied to any of the hospitals.
▪ The firm eventually settled on a strategy of attempting to focus public attention on its superior sales staff and customer service.
▪ With their young daughters, Lydia and Josephine, they eventually settled in Oxford.
▪ All of these strikes were eventually settled, by varying combinations of concessions, punishments, and threats.
▪ It eventually settles down on the bottom of the sea and grows into a tiny flower-like organism called a polyp.
▪ His mind wanders from one small thing to another, eventually settling on the future Mrs Blue.
take
▪ John Hayward remembers well the breakthrough on the case which he eventually took over.
▪ Bob eventually took a different union assignment that would allow him to spend the time needed to lead change with John.
▪ Don't knock it in with your chin. 4 in hand or Windsor knot - though latter eventually took over.
▪ Kirton first achieved coaching prominence in London and, on his return to New Zealand, eventually took over the Wellington side.
▪ Professor Marsh eventually took almost five hundred ton-sized wooden boxes of bones from the Como Bluff quarries.
▪ They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth.
▪ The government eventually took over Great Life Savings in 1990.
turn
▪ It was like all that ego-building which eventually turns into a monster.
▪ Suffice it to say that the whisper eventually turned into a shout and the five-foot pile of dirt was reduced considerably.
▪ I was not ready to become the care-taker of another living thing which would, like me, eventually turn futile.
▪ Then I took a rest that eventually turned into a nap.
win
▪ The game went into extra time with Hereford eventually winning four three on penalties.
▪ Bollaert eventually won, and they returned to the Bay of Along on June 8, 1948.
▪ And Caroline Strong gives a full account of the innocence and sadness of a loser who eventually wins.
▪ Elstead eventually won an exciting final 2-0.
▪ The President he himself deposed, Milton Obote, eventually wins power.
▪ But she tones down her performance as the show progresses and one is eventually won over.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Eventually, the sky cleared up and we went to the beach.
▪ Seventy-two percent of people eventually found work, but mainly in low-paid service jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He eventually panicked and ran off as the boy screamed for help.
▪ If energy prices continued to rise it would be worrisome and eventually feed into broader inflation measures.
▪ The absence of unrelenting selling pressure may eventually stabilise land prices and stem the deterioration in balance sheets.
▪ The judge procrastinated, but eventually the tabloids had their sport.
▪ When Margy eventually went to court for her new shoplifting charge the judge gave her a probation order.