Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | That extra-strong attachment for Mum remained until the end of our mother 's life , at the age of eighty-two . |
| 2 | The leaflet was launched at an event for employers held at the end of June 1993 . |
| 3 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 4 | A fresh burst of noise cut off the end of the sentence . |
| 5 | Once you have found the blockage ( see opposite ) , you will need a drain clearing set ( this can be hired ) consisting of rods which are screwed together with a choice of accessories to fit on the end . |
| 6 | Items can be sent to my home address by the second week in September , this will give me time to price and size them , a major job as I discovered last time and I will send you the figure of money raised by the end of October . |
| 7 | If the company 's business involves dealing in goods the records must also contain a statement of stock held at the end of the financial year and statements of stocktakings from which that was prepared , and , except in the case of goods sold in the ordinary course of retail trade , statements of all goods sold or purchased , in sufficient detail to enable the other party to be identified . |
| 8 | The port of Ventspils lay at the end of a pipeline which brought Siberian oil for export , providing one-third of Soviet hard-currency income . |
| 9 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 10 | The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but . |
| 11 | The Committee of Directors of Polytechnics decided at the end of 1982 to discuss plans to deal with applications for the 1985 intake , involving the appointment of staff and the compilation of application forms and a polytechnic equivalent of the UCCA booklet . |
| 12 | When the first shaft of light showed at the end of the tunnel it was like waking from a nightmare . |
| 13 | Dexter looked up expectantly , a loop of ash dangling from the end of the cigarette he had lit in her absence . |
| 14 | When the current round of licences expires at the end of 1992 , new licence-holders will be ( more or less ) the firms that have paid most for them . |
| 15 | ( A list of texts appears at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 16 | ‘ Christopher Columbus discovered America with a sextant and a chunk of lead tied to the end of a line . ’ |
| 17 | You need a glass of wine to raise at the end of your speech if you are going to propose a toast . |
| 18 | Competitively superior varieties of RNA produced at the end of several test-tube ‘ generations ’ can be bottled and named for future use . |
| 19 | It would be misleading to imply that there were only three strata of funeral existing at the end of the sixteenth century — monarchial , noble and guild ; what one had depended entirely on one 's status . |
| 20 | The Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , sent his congratulations to Déby on Dec. 5 , and welcomed a decision to repatriate 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war held since the end of the 1986-87 war . |
| 21 | I was panicking a bit about a week before the sale as stuff was not coming in very quickly but thanks to Nursery Needs and all those who did last minute searches we had a good amount of stuff to sell in the end . |
| 22 | When a bright ring of solder appears at the end of the fitting , the joint is made . |
| 23 | Dressed in tropical white , with a panama on his head and a pair of glasses perched on the end of his nose , he was reading . |
| 24 | While IBM Corp is still the most popular manufacturer in Spain , in 1992 both hardware and software sales from all vendors were below forecasts made at the end of 1991 . |
| 25 | The exhibition ‘ Western painting from the sixteenth to the twentieth century from the Bremen Kunsthalle Collection ’ , the show of some of the works of art looted at the end of World War II , has moved from the Hermitage in St Petersburg to the All-Russian Museum of Decorative , Applied and Folk Art in Moscow . |
| 26 | ‘ A number of things contributed to the end of my spell with BRM , ’ says Rudd . |
| 27 | A runlet of water trickled past the end of the hut . |
| 28 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 29 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 30 | Guinness stout is celebrating over 100 years in Malaysia with a series of promotions running until the end of the year to reward loyal drinkers for their support . |