Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 2 | The words of Chris Bott , anarchist or , more politely , ‘ libertarian left ’ , as laid out in giant 36-point type and printed in lurid blue on a red background on the cover of Ink , one of the crop of underground papers that sprang up at the end of the 1960s . |
| 3 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 4 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 5 | We took that hill at a cracking pace , and as we handed over at the crest , and dropped back to the end of the column , Fr Courtney called out ‘ Well done I ’ to us . |
| 6 | Nails bit his tongue as Midnight jiggled and swung about on the end of the rein . |
| 7 | The bridge across the gjøgv seemed very slender and a long way above the sea surging below , but we made our way safely across and walked out to the end of the hølmur to where we could overlook the gannet colony . |
| 8 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
| 9 | I swivelled and strode up to the end of a passage . |
| 10 | Well , they all wandered around forests , chased by villains , and won through in the end . |
| 11 | On a pitch of uneven bounce England were put in and shot out before the end of the day for 200 , David Smith , Lamb and Botham the only ones to make an impression . |
| 12 | The letter quoted above was begun at Didcot Station , then continued at his Cowley Road digs , and rounded off at the end of the first day of the Scholarship exam after six hours of hard writing . |
| 13 | It all took time but worked out in the end . |
| 14 | Davies suffered the injury in the 10th minute of the match against Orrell but stayed on until the end to score the points which virtually ended the Lancashire club 's championship hopes . |