Example sentences of "[to-vb] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The bell rang to signal the end of the period but nobody moved . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The defence of any practice is its ability to promote the end ; all means are instrumental . |
| 6 | to signify the end of the garden . |
| 7 | Also could I pour this water into my compost bin to enrich the end product ? |
| 8 | Well , there are strange little bits of old-fashioned good Englishness about , dating perhaps from the late forties , when city streets were safe and when people of good will in England were happy and even proud to see the end of Empire . |
| 9 | I also reminded her of her predictions concerning Lord Lovat and herself , and that I hoped very much to see the end of the campaign in Normandy and looked forward to meeting her again in the Highlands . |
| 10 | Surprisingly , it did not feel too cold and Endill stood for a moment trying to see the end of it but it disappeared into darkness . |
| 11 | But the other quarter — the professional bit — is so relieved to see the end of that ghastly place that it ca n't help rejoicing in a perverse sort of way . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd like to see the end of this . ’ |
| 13 | Equally , if the mouse was a pest and we are pleased to see the end of it , we do not praise the cat for the saintly way in which it has fulfilled its duty to its household . |
| 14 | Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus . |
| 15 | I SHALL be so sorry to see the end of the florin . |
| 16 | I realized he could not catch them , because they had nearly got to the ship , but I did not wait to see the end of that adventure . |
| 17 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 18 | Christ , I 'd like to see the end of bloody babies . ’ |
| 19 | You are very alive , very active … you just travel too fast to see the end result . |
| 20 | I think I would come down on voles really and they do actually dig a hole like that they go for erm small boulders and things like that in the garden or roots and they will send out clods as well cos they can uproot quite , quite a fair piece of er soil and of course they would eat berries as well , but again I 'm with Walter , I would like to see the end product . |
| 21 | Now she ca n't wait to see the end result , when Channel Four screens its adaptation of her best-selling novel early in the New Year . |
| 22 | ‘ I would like to see the end of clubs playing two games in three days , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Will I , so you 'll get to see the end ? |
| 24 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 25 | She had the unusual skill of being able to pull the end down like a tapir when she was angry . |
| 26 | But though this sense of chivalry endured throughout the war , Verdun was to spell the end of the solitary ace and single combat . |
| 27 | The manual alternative , in which you have to switch from record mode to play , and then check to find the end of the previous recording by trial and error before returning to record mode , is messy , time-consuming and wasteful of precious battery-time . |
| 28 | It entails a testing session to find the end point ( the first dilution of the extract that does not cause the wheal to increase in the 10 minutes after intradermal injection ) followed by prophylactic use of that dilution . |
| 29 | P. E. When we were at Old Swan and had to go to Fairfield , we used to pass the end of one of the little streets there . |
| 30 | A similar door on the right was meant to serve the end house . |