Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] and [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the end of the match in Berne last year they snatched victory and at the end of this game they snatched a point off us . |
| 2 | On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing . |
| 3 | When Vane 's crew turned against him , Rackam became captain and at the end of 1718 cruised in the Caribbean , taking several prizes . |
| 4 | Sometimes they give you the feeling that they have done you a great favour by attending rehearsals and at the end of the rehearsal period it 's ‘ Bye-bye loves , now you do your thing and I 'll go off and do another ’ . |
| 5 | The Whitbread is a long race full of hardships , so it is unlikely that people who hardly knew each other would not have disputes and in the end form friendships . |
| 6 | In 1980 he arrived at Queen 's University to study law and at the end of his first year flew out to the USA to find summer jobs as labourer . |
| 7 | It was hard work trying to understand Franco and by the end of the last telling of the story Sandison was happy to accept a second , though rather smaller , whisky . |
| 8 | The company has its own customer information system named CARGOLINK and by the end of the present year all the company 's offices will be using this system thus enabling the organisation to control each individual consignment during the transport from booking to final delivery to end user . |