Example sentences of "[verb] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lips were so thick that they met the end of his nose and so wide that they became lost in his side-whiskers . |
| 2 | The development division has witnessed the end of an era with the disbanding of the team of clerks of works . |
| 3 | Oh , yes , I know about the secret metal box she owned ; her turreted chamber at Blois with its magic mirror which told her the future ; and her employment of that terrible prophet Nostradamus who prophesied the end of the world . |
| 4 | ‘ Mair sherbet in that man 's rum , ’ cried the locksmith , quite recovered and sucking the end of an over-done chop . |
| 5 | She 's now sucking the end of the pen ! |
| 6 | He pierced the end walls with rose-windows which are among the earliest in existence . |
| 7 | It would have hastened the end . |
| 8 | History records the end of the reign of the ‘ Sun King ’ Louis XIV , the ineffectual rule of his successor , the brutal singularity of the Revolution , the rise of Napoleon , the restoration of the monarchy , the formation of the Third Republic . |
| 9 | Dinner lasted one hour and , in spite of the impeccable and rapid service , guests were often caught in mid-mouthful when the Emperor and Empress rose to signal the end of the meal . |
| 10 | The bell rang to signal the end of the period but nobody moved . |
| 11 | Underwood 's new book , Flying Wing ( Stanley Paul £1499 ) , was intended to signal the end of a glittering career that brought him 55 England caps and a record 35 tries . |
| 12 | FORMER Tour de France champion Stephen Roche last night revealed the agony behind his decision to retire admitted the pressure cycling exerted on his family life prompted his decision to retire the end of next season . |
| 13 | He lay head towards the door and at an angle of forty-five degrees from the bed , his shoes touching the end . |
| 14 | Not so gloomy ; even here , the small shops were gay with holly and fairy-lights , and once we passed the end of a market street which was as bright and rowdy as a fairground . |
| 15 | Traffic passed the end of the alley , hut no-one came in . |
| 16 | The vehicle passed the end of the road but it did n't turn toward us . |
| 17 | And to argue , as some theorists have done , that the class has dissolved or been integrated into the bourgeoisie would be to abandon the hope of a proletarian revolution heralding the end of capitalism . |
| 18 | Some see such intervention as heralding the end of elected local government but , as Goldsmith ( 1986 , p. xiv ) observes : ‘ Britain has not become a totally centralized state , nor is central government 's control over local authorities ’ activities yet total … |
| 19 | In the society portrayed in the novel the printed codex is obsolete ; books are distributed on diskette which can be altered at will , heralding the end of the definitive text . |
| 20 | She walked along the passage and came , as she had planned , to the window which made the end wall of that floor . |
| 21 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 22 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 23 | Both reports condemned the existing system and recommended the end of a separate Poor Law . |
| 24 | The report ( Foreign Package Holidays , Cmnd 9879 , HMSO : London , September 1986 ) recommended the end of resale price maintenance agreements . |
| 25 | Then using the end of a teaspoon , ease out the seeds . |
| 26 | For instance , it 's possible to bend the strings behind the slide , using the end joint on your first finger like a kind of mechanical lever , while still keeping the slide and the vibrato completely in tune . |
| 27 | Try using the end of the lab time and " free periods " during the week . |
| 28 | Using the end of your thumb firmly and squarely push socketed integrated circuits ( chips ) back into their sockets . |
| 29 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 30 | The defence of any practice is its ability to promote the end ; all means are instrumental . |