Example sentences of "[v-ing] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mair sherbet in that man 's rum , ’ cried the locksmith , quite recovered and sucking the end of an over-done chop . |
| 2 | She 's now sucking the end of the pen ! |
| 3 | He lay head towards the door and at an angle of forty-five degrees from the bed , his shoes touching the end . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | In the society portrayed in the novel the printed codex is obsolete ; books are distributed on diskette which can be altered at will , heralding the end of the definitive text . |
| 7 | Then using the end of a teaspoon , ease out the seeds . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Try using the end of the lab time and " free periods " during the week . |
| 10 | Using the end of your thumb firmly and squarely push socketed integrated circuits ( chips ) back into their sockets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 13 | I ADMIRE Freddie Starr and his wife Sandie for the mature way they are handling the end of their 18-year marriage . |
| 14 | Mr Wang was a top student leader of the 1989 demonstrations that saw more than a million people take to the streets calling for more democracy and demanding the end of corruption and special privileges for officials . |
| 15 | Come on ! ’ he snapped , thumping the end of his stick on the floor and glowering from beneath his unkempt eyebrows . |
| 16 | We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage . |
| 17 | Remove the spring by twisting the end clockwise with a screwdriver . |
| 18 | We have been known to describe major launches as ‘ IBM announcing the end of the world as we know it ’ : this time , that really is what the company has announced . |
| 19 | It was seen by MPs as spelling the end of any career in government . |
| 20 | Little had been accomplished before the emergence of the new Government 's proposals for the treatment of young offenders , spelling the end of approved schools . |
| 21 | From 1971 ( following his predecessor in title , probably since 1967 ) Moran occupied as a part of his garden a patch of land adjoining the end of his garden . |
| 22 | By bunging the end of the downpipe with the filter mat all the debris is filtered out of the water before it goes into the bucket or water butt , which saves time and energy trying to strain it out later . |
| 23 | Louis sniffed into it , dabbing the end of his nose as precisely as a dentist drying a cavity . |
| 24 | He watched their candle moving the shadows around , keeping the end of the world at bay , keeping the two of them alive . |
| 25 | Squeers came out to where Mr Multhrop was sitting , wilting on a chair foreseeing the end of his hotel . |
| 26 | taking out a pen and tapping the end of it on his lower teeth . |
| 27 | It 's a strange sensation levelling out from the climb at six hundred feet and trimming into the glide before passing the end of the runway . |
| 28 | The bird ties it by holding a strip on to a branch with one foot and then , using its beak , passing the end round the branch , threading it through one of the turns and pulling it tight . |
| 29 | Fatigue is another factor that can effect the pods causing the end plates to bend or crack and lose contact . |
| 30 | The structural complexity here is as great as anywhere in the world , with the surface features forming the end point of a series of chemical and physical transformations and movements of the rocks at depth under the influences of high pressures and moderate temperatures . |