Example sentences of "[vb past] towards [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 2 | Another example of , of a similar thing er that you mentioned towards the end of your paper was where an external stimulus interferes with dreams . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the actual origin of the mechanical clock remains a mystery , although it probably occurred towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 4 | They met towards the end of January , and he kept the news from Theo until April . |
| 5 | It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future . |
| 6 | It was my experience that seldom did the more senior of his element — and there were many of them — fit into the operational set-up , more especially as it got towards the end of the war . |
| 7 | These were all forms which failed towards the end of the Cretaceous , except for the crocodilian which still live on , virtually unchanged , today . |
| 8 | In the mid-twenties it closed altogether but reopened towards the end of the decade . |
| 9 | And as they came towards the end of the day he had to do some quick thinking to find out whether he 'd have to keep the men working right up to the last minute in order to get the stint , of three-quarter of an acre 's ploughing for each man , finished . |
| 10 | Norwich did have other chances , top scorer Mark Robins seeing a superb volley ruled out for offside — but most of those came towards the end of the game as desperate Oldham charged forward in a vain attempt to gain a point . |
| 11 | This scene came towards the end of an episode in which Frank had already caused havoc in the local library , succeeded in unintentionally dismantling his neighbour 's chicken house and attended an interview for a job selling farming products . |
| 12 | In the subsequent scramble for survival and enrichment which mounted towards the end of 1922 , it was not surprising that those who were slightly better off often took a kind of revenge in driving hard bargains with their poorer neighbours , as has been noted earlier . |
| 13 | Some of these influences carried forward into the first fortnight of the campaign , though they faded towards the end . |
| 14 | And it happened towards the end of a lunch or dinner . |
| 15 | The ice cream girl must have had a lie in this Sunday morning , and she arrived towards the end of the film showing prior to the interval . |
| 16 | In 1316 , however , the southern clergy met three times before they finally capitulated towards the end of the year and authorized the collection of a tenth ; even then , it was to be delivered in two moieties , one in 1317 , the other in 1318 . |
| 17 | Dave Heath got the fourth … the Wildcats finally stirred thanks to a goal from Bryan Larkin … the Kings kept going though … they led by 10-1 in the third period before Swindon came back with four late goals … it finished 11 … 5 … with fists flying as tempers flared towards the end … the second leg in two weeks time at Swindon should be a scorcher |
| 18 | It is no accident that the explosion in the number of type-faces began towards the end of the 19th century when advertising and branded goods came into their own . |
| 19 | In real time , Peter worked out , Emor began towards the end of 1963 and flourished for nearly two years . |
| 20 | Drilling operations began towards the end of 1902 in Chiah Surkh , a likely oil-bearing area near the border with Iraq . |
| 21 | Building work began towards the end of the same year with the first product produced in July 1990 . |
| 22 | McJannet 's injury problems began towards the end of two championship-winning seasons . |
| 23 | The Quakers , in particular , had obvious reasons for continuing to support James , for the toleration they enjoyed towards the end of his reign was far more extensive than that allowed under the Toleration Act of 1689 . |
| 24 | Thirty-one out of thirty-six City banks joined in this key venture and it was also from their group that the practice of banks holding accounts at the Bank of England and re-discounting through it developed towards the end of the century . |
| 25 | Next to it as we walked towards the end of the street was a two-storey white building , freshly painted , though the old sign was weathered , ‘ New Zealand Government . |
| 26 | So that 's going to be a problem for Nottingham Forest who threatened towards the end of that first half to get back into this game one down remember . |
| 27 | When Raybestos decided towards the end of August 1976 to give up its designs on the Knockanemore dump , Michael Harrington of the IDA undertook a search for an alternative dumping site for Raybestos 's waste . |
| 28 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 29 | The Fears of Solitude more accurately represents his disillusionment with other people , which he clearly felt towards the end of his life . |
| 30 | But it is one of the reasons why the Cruithin disappeared towards the end of Dierdriu 's reign . ’ |