Example sentences of "see the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , there are strange little bits of old-fashioned good Englishness about , dating perhaps from the late forties , when city streets were safe and when people of good will in England were happy and even proud to see the end of Empire . |
| 2 | I also reminded her of her predictions concerning Lord Lovat and herself , and that I hoped very much to see the end of the campaign in Normandy and looked forward to meeting her again in the Highlands . |
| 3 | Surprisingly , it did not feel too cold and Endill stood for a moment trying to see the end of it but it disappeared into darkness . |
| 4 | But the other quarter — the professional bit — is so relieved to see the end of that ghastly place that it ca n't help rejoicing in a perverse sort of way . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd like to see the end of this . ’ |
| 6 | Equally , if the mouse was a pest and we are pleased to see the end of it , we do not praise the cat for the saintly way in which it has fulfilled its duty to its household . |
| 7 | Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus . |
| 8 | I SHALL be so sorry to see the end of the florin . |
| 9 | I realized he could not catch them , because they had nearly got to the ship , but I did not wait to see the end of that adventure . |
| 10 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 11 | Christ , I 'd like to see the end of bloody babies . ’ |
| 12 | You are very alive , very active … you just travel too fast to see the end result . |
| 13 | I think I would come down on voles really and they do actually dig a hole like that they go for erm small boulders and things like that in the garden or roots and they will send out clods as well cos they can uproot quite , quite a fair piece of er soil and of course they would eat berries as well , but again I 'm with Walter , I would like to see the end product . |
| 14 | Now she ca n't wait to see the end result , when Channel Four screens its adaptation of her best-selling novel early in the New Year . |
| 15 | ‘ I would like to see the end of clubs playing two games in three days , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Will I , so you 'll get to see the end ? |
| 17 | We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage . |
| 18 | We seen the end of it . |
| 19 | This week has not seen the end of the row about Europe in the Conservative party , but merely a regrouping of forces for the battle still to come . |
| 20 | The speed of change was such that it had become difficult to keep up with developments of which perhaps ‘ we have not yet seen the end ’ . |
| 21 | I believe we 've seen the end of Norwich . |
| 22 | But he became weary of his creation and with Doctor Dolittle in the Moon ( 1928 ) he hoped that he had seen the end of his hero . |
| 23 | We believe that we have seen the end of that problem . |
| 24 | Someone with greater political vision might have seen the end of hostilities as the right moment to substitute civilian for military leadership . |
| 25 | The new four-model range sees the end of the old 2.6-litre four . |
| 26 | The sale on 28 July sees the end of Bond 's dream to build an historical collection of Australian art . |
| 27 | JUNE SEES the end of the old 10p piece as legal currency as it is replaced by the new smaller version . |
| 28 | Right : P&O Roadtanks driver , Ken Burgess , sees the end in sight as he runs along The Mall with just over a mile to go |
| 29 | This sees the end of my first year as chairman . |
| 30 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |