Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] the end of " in BNC.
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1 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
2 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |
3 | ‘ I shall collect him at the end of the day . |
4 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
5 | Tell him at the end of the week . |
6 | ‘ They say you 'll marry him before the end of the year , miss . ’ |
7 | He looked at Bernard , frowned , then glanced round sharply when he heard someone calling him from the end of the counter . |
8 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
9 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
10 | Emmie watched him from the end of the garden , knee-deep in damp , sweet fern . |
11 | I watched him round the end of the point , and out of sight , then ran for the causeway . |
12 | She had undertaken to contact him by the end of next week to report what progress she had made and he did not doubt she would do so , for she was a woman of her word . |
13 | The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers . |
14 | Captain Ian Farquhar ( 47 ) , of the Beaufort Hunt , was said to be planning an appeal after North Avon magistrates at Yate , near Bristol , convicted him at the end of a three-day trial yesterday . |
15 | Dexter guessed she was starting to share the same nagging sense of depression that had afflicted him since the end of the interview with Parkin . |
16 | This bomb came through and whacked this barrel and it took the side of his head away and dragged him to the end of the ship . ’ |
17 | Having edged him to the end of the branch , he utters a shattering ‘ bock ’ in his ear and the rival falls off . |
18 | The president , meanwhile , stood high in the public opinion polls after the attempt to assassinate him at the end of March . |
19 | His hair , similarly , has collapsed onto his head so that at first — I see him at the end of a corridor — he appears to be completely bald . |