Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] at [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenpeace had taken one of its boats , the Cedarlea , to monitor the radioactivity at the end of the Sellafield discharge pipeline . |
| 2 | At last he 's beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 3 | At last he 's beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 4 | I 've always wanted to get as stoned as quickly as possible to enjoy the evening at the end of a working day . |
| 5 | Patterson was very unlucky when he ran out of road coming into the start and finish area and had to restart the race at the end of lap two . |
| 6 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 7 | He expects to receive a dividend at the end of the year as well as the price for the share at that time . |
| 8 | The birth was fine , the bonding process took a couple of days longer , and I felt such a surge of energy rushing back into my system that I decided to open a shop at the end of the first week , and did in fact do so six weeks after the birth . |
| 9 | Have you ever met anybody who took driving lessons , without wanting to drive a car at the end of it . |
| 10 | FOLLOWING a number of organisational changes within , , UK sales director , decided to leave the company at the end of February . |
| 11 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 12 | Most of it would disperse as it found its way through the gravel , and it may not be necessary to form a soakaway at the end of the drain . |
| 13 | He even had the temerity to do an ad-lib at the end of the ‘ Mrs Worthington ’ number . |
| 14 | The aircraft was just about to touch down when the pilot found himself in unfamiliar surroundings and opened his throttle in time for his wheels to clear the cliff-edge at the end of the runway . |
| 15 | Is that any way to run a business at the end of the 20th century ? |
| 16 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 17 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 18 | The liability to repay the deposit at the end of the term remained throughout on the original landlord and was an obligation to repay to the original tenant . |
| 19 | In the Palaeozoic rocks there were other stalked filter-feeding echinoderms , which failed to survive the crisis at the end of the Permian , weathered by the crinoids . |
| 20 | ( Bitter experience has taught me to remove the gaffer at the end of the event only by holding the wire down on the floor as you pull the tape up . |
| 21 | But I mean , my dad always invites his staff to have a drink at the end of the evening and I mean , most of them have already been bought a drink during the course of the evening , anyway , so they 're entitled to it . |
| 22 | Sometimes , when I have to make precious substances such as toenail cheese or belly-button fluff , I have to go without a shower or bath for days and days ; I hate doing this because I soon feel dirty and itchy , and the only bright thing about such abstinence is how good it feels to have a shower at the end of it . |
| 23 | Each group is supposed to have a subject-index at the end , though some indexes are at present missing ; there is also to be a general index to the whole work . |
| 24 | We pay for each boy to have a trophy at the end of the season to recognize that he had represented Ottery throughout the season . |
| 25 | In order to get a job at the end of the war , she and Siegfried need to obtain what she calls a ‘ Persil-Schein certificate denazifying us whiter than white ’ ( 79/473 ) . |
| 26 | Uncle rented out our horse and cart to carry the lunch baskets and the cartridges and to collect the bag at the end of the day . |
| 27 | You have to plot carefully to achieve the surprise at the end . |
| 28 | Sir John reserved the right to become a partner at the end of the first three years term for a quarter share of all mines and ores , then opened , got , or sold , … or … at the end of six years also to commence as a partner for one quarter share … or … at the end of nine years to commence as a partner for the same … or … at the end of 12 years the same , and at 15 years ditto . |