Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] to the end " in BNC.

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1 I got out to the end of the runway first , applied my brakes and did my run-up and magneto checks , whilst waiting impatiently for the oil temperature to rise to the required degree .
2 Without thinking I tagged on to the end of the marching men and within a few seconds was past the SPs unnoticed .
3 I , I worked up to the end of May and because of accrued leave I er I left then .
4 When I fight I go on to the end , as I did in 1926 . ’
5 In the twentieth century it was the growth in the power and influence of this élite , along with the example of the Indian movement for independence , which led directly to the end of colonial rule .
6 Then they move up to take the Cross , and you drop back to the end of the file .
7 She hung on to the end of her nose , desperately killing the sneeze , but it refused to die .
8 ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’
9 You 'll see it in a minute when you get back to the end again .
10 He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made .
11 The basis of the book is that we are unfulfilled because we 've grown too sophisticated for God , we 're lonely , we 're morally confused , and I think God is the answer for this , it fashions , religion fashions the kind of community in which you 're redeemed from loneliness , it gives you the sense that when you come close to the end of your life you do n't have to panic that you have wasted your life because religion can show you that you have made a difference to the world .
12 ‘ Then I suggest you hop along to the end of the garden , ’ Sergeant told them .
13 Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes .
14 They go on to the end of the world and the end of eternity .
15 tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ?
16 After another battle with the gate they carried on to the end of the lane and walked on to the road and into the sunlight .
17 But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before .
18 He walked down to the end .
19 He looked forward to the end of his shift .
20 This mattered little while Antarctica remained virtually empty , as it did up to the end of World War II , but became important in post-war years when scientists and technicians of many nations began to work there .
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