Example sentences of "[vb past] the 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He pierced the end walls with rose-windows which are among the earliest in existence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Traffic passed the end of the alley , hut no-one came in . |
| 6 | The vehicle passed the end of the road but it did n't turn toward us . |
| 7 | She walked along the passage and came , as she had planned , to the window which made the end wall of that floor . |
| 8 | Both reports condemned the existing system and recommended the end of a separate Poor Law . |
| 9 | The report ( Foreign Package Holidays , Cmnd 9879 , HMSO : London , September 1986 ) recommended the end of resale price maintenance agreements . |
| 10 | He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree . |
| 11 | He would closet himself with a bottle of port and a cigar or pipe , read the end of the previous instalment , and then write the next , drawing his fee when he handed over the text . |
| 12 | She shook the thermometer vigorously , then wiped the end with antiseptic . |
| 13 | Swindon became the end of the line for east bound Inter City trains . |
| 14 | Two days after his downfall , the 35-year-old Chiyonofuji ( known as ‘ The Wolf ’ to millions of admirers ) announced the end of an illustrious career with the ritual cutting of his hair 's top-knot . |
| 15 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 16 | With those words the TV comedian announced the end of an 18-year marriage which many regarded as the strongest in showbusiness . |
| 17 | The crowd capacity at The Valley remains uncertain but it will be more than 8,000 — at least 2,000 above the figure envisaged when Charlton announced the end of their ground-sharing scheme with West Ham . |
| 18 | A statement issued by Bailey announced the end of the ‘ informal arrangement under which Tory rode most of the yard 's horses ’ . |
| 19 | yes , I mean we got the end result , |
| 20 | He knotted the end of the tie round the other side of the window . |
| 21 | He , too , sought the end of the 20 per cent . |
| 22 | His face donned a mask of decisive coolness and he twiddled the end of his moustache without letting go of his gloves . |
| 23 | The court admitted that it was giving an unusual meaning to the word , for a historian who described the end of Rizzio by saying that he met with a fatal accident in Holyrood Palace would fairly be charged with a misleading statement of fact . |
| 24 | In the centre of Bishkek , formerly Frunze , where grandiose marble buildings intrude into the paradise of fir trees and mountains that surround them , Alexandra bemoaned the end of empire . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , I caught the end of your conversation , ’ he responded expressionlessly . |
| 26 | And I turned over and I just caught the end of that film . |
| 27 | I Just caught the end of it . |
| 28 | We seen the end of it . |
| 29 | As he approached the end of the passage , Mungo could already see that the furthest room was in darkness . |
| 30 | He was subdued now , and his feet dragged as they approached the end of the bridge . |