Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at the end [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 2 | Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent . |
| 3 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 4 | In the Middlesbrough area , Marton Sixth Form College has lost Mr Thomas Hume , who has retired at the end of a 28-year teaching career , and taking early retirement from Nunthorpe School in the summer after 19 years is Mrs Margaret Brown . |
| 5 | The client , it is hoped , will feel reassured at the end of the assessment interview . |
| 6 | Is this the same as Carl , who we transfer listed at the end of last season ? |
| 7 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of the great wad of paper work which MPs get handed at the end of the Budget statement was the revelation tucked away that , even on Norman Lamont 's most optimistic financial forecast , the UK would not be in a position to meet the European Economic convergence criteria laid down in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 8 | No I did n't th I should imagine , I thought he said you did n't , I would imagine he gets paid at the end of the month . |
| 9 | ‘ If you can spend five weeks having the time of your life and get paid at the end of it — why not ? ’ he asks . |
| 10 | Both groups should have reported at the end of 1982 , though engineering will take longer , and other subject groups will be set up in due course . |
| 11 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 12 | The other proviso of course , is our commitment to ninety , nineteen ninety four , and nineteen ninety five , not having arrived at the end of the financial year yet , we 're still in the position of having to forecast what those commitments will be . |
| 13 | With all the work at home — cleaning , washing , mending , ironing — Janice too feels stressed at the end of the day . |
| 14 | Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account . |
| 15 | It was hard work but we all felt rewarded at the end of the day — not like at Sakata — routine work and then out on your neck . ’ |
| 16 | His first wife was supposed to have died at the end of the war . |
| 17 | Stalin is reported to have remarked at the end of the war that to establish communist rule in Poland would be like ‘ trying to saddle a cow ’ and Soviet relations with that country ( the largest and most populous in Eastern Europe ) have borne out these apprehensions . |
| 18 | I 'd get paid at the end of the term and to into town and buy a bit of cheese ; a couple of ties ; two or three books — that was it . |
| 19 | When the Girls left to get married at the end of each show , rather than risk Jennie 's haphazard choice of replacements , she sent over the two Head Girls who were almost resident in America , Rene Todd or Dorothy Sabine , to make their own selection . |
| 20 | It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) . |
| 21 | It was probably that blow on the head he had received at the end of the spring term . |
| 22 | I found nothing ; it was as if they had vanished at the end of the revolution . |
| 23 | The upward slope of the function reflects the response of firms to an actual value for p which turns out to be greater or less than they had expected at the end of t - 1 . |
| 24 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 25 | The communist CGIL trade union confederation on Sept. 4 reconfirmed as its leader Bruno Trentin who had resigned at the end of July [ see p. 39025 ] . |
| 26 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 27 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 28 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 29 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 30 | The PS had decided at the end of August to preserve a loose electoral accord with the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |