Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 2 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 3 | 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind . |
| 4 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 5 | Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book . |
| 6 | BRM scrapped it at the end of 1967 . |
| 7 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 8 | Captain Slocum did it at the end of the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 9 | Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition . |
| 10 | After one interview in the relatively early days , my mentor , Ron Evans buttonholed me at the end of the programme . |