Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] a end to " in BNC.

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1 After one terrible shelling early in the battle when human entrails were to be seen dangling in the branches of a tree and a ‘ torso , without head , without arms , without legs , stuck to the trunk of a tree , flattened and opened , ’ Dubrulle recalls ‘ how I implored God to put an end to these indignities .
2 East Anglia also expects to do well and that seems to er stock numbers indicate an end to de-stocking in East Anglia and that being the explanation .
3 However , within 24 hours Congress approved and Bush signed legislation ordering an end to the strike , with the result that most railworkers were back at work on the morning of April 18 .
4 golfers to maestro who took on the establishmentOpen victory put an end to system of subjugation
5 But although I scarcely , if ever , thought about sex , I wallowed in thoughts of death , utilising them , rather than death itself , to bear or deny my increasing depression instead of taking steps to put an end to it .
6 Then , however , in August 1968 , détente stalled as Soviet tanks , emulating the Hungary operation of 1956 , invaded Czechoslovakia to put an end to the liberalising government of Alexander Dubcek .
7 Already , in November , de Gaulle had had to threaten resignation to put an end to Communist demands for certain key cabinet posts .
8 The Sunhill Scheme had been a failure ; existing machinery had not settled the wage issue ; nor had coercion put an end to desertions , while the seamen had concluded that their reasonableness and patriotism were being exploited .
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