Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] the end " in BNC.

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1 Or , alternatively , a mother encounters a persistent feeding difficulty in the baby , fails to resolve it , and as a result loses her initial equanimity and becomes tense and fearful with him ( and if that , in turn , then makes the feeding problem even worse one is left with a vicious spiral of the kind that can only be resolved by some drastic outside intervention and which clearly shows , moreover , the difficulty of disentangling cause and effect when confronted by the end result ) .
2 Mystery also surrounds the brief existence of a rival non-governmental body , the All-Russian Famine Relief Committee , set up in July and dismantled at the end of August 1921 .
3 The book by Bram Stoker and published at the end of the last century has sold over a million copies .
4 I made this round trip between church and house three times and settled in the end for slaking my thirst from a tap in the churchyard .
5 Expectations were examined on the first day of the course and reviewed at the end .
6 The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began .
7 Repayments are in ten instalments beginning six years after the date of borrowing and completed at the end of the tenth year after borrowing .
8 The best description of this journey is to be found in Satyrane 's Letters , written by Coleridge and reprinted at the end of Biographia Literaria .
9 Then he smiled as if savouring some secret joke and slumped at the end of the table so he could stretch his leg .
10 It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning .
11 They had one likeness of Oreste , sent at Christmas when Wilson had requested it should be taken , and this was removed from its frame and put at the end of the chart .
12 If it is kept out of sight and offered at the end of the meal as a special treat , the child will start to learn appropriate eating patterns .
13 You may like to check yourself when you are relaxing on your back on the floor as suggested at the end of Chapter 12 .
14 The other end of the wire is passed through a hole in the brass plate and soldered into the end of a short piece of brass rod .
15 This is wheeled by hand and placed under the end of a coach .
16 The shrewd little girl from Australia had no intention of following others who had been eaten by the star system and dumped at the end of it all with nothing .
17 It is rolled into a pellet and fastened to the end of the needle and lit so that it smokes .
18 We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed .
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