Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at the end [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 2 | Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent . |
| 3 | An interim experiment took place in 1981 with tubes of brine shrimp , which are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field : they seemed to cluster at the end of the tube which was nearest the stones . |
| 4 | Amdahl hopes to eventually supplement its dwindling mainframe income with revenue from these Sparc-based machines , expected to ship at the end of 1993 . |
| 5 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 6 | The rapid acceleration of house prices during the late 1980s ( which received added impetus from the rush by house buyers to beat the ending of multiple mortgage tax relief in August 1988 ) meant that highly geared first-time buyers were especially vulnerable when interest rates began rising during 1988 , and their exposure increased when house prices began falling at the end of 1989 . |
| 7 | Concern about the employment effects of new technology began to re-emerge at the end of the 1970s . |
| 8 | Sales of co-ordinate measuring machines and laser calibration products increased , and demand for the group 's new products , the Cyclone scanning machine and the Raman microscope , which began shipping at the end of June , were promising . |
| 9 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 10 | It was hard work but we all felt rewarded at the end of the day — not like at Sakata — routine work and then out on your neck . ’ |
| 11 | A car skidded into the hedge to avoid it ; another lorry managed to stop at the end of four long streaks of scorched rubber on the wet road . |
| 12 | A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them . |
| 13 | Distinctive directors did emerge at the end of the decade . |
| 14 | The head of the central bank , Grzegorz Wojtowicz , was suspended on Aug. 9 , pending a parliamentary vote on his dismissal when the Sejm , the lower house , resumed sitting at the end of the month . |
| 15 | It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) . |
| 16 | It was probably that blow on the head he had received at the end of the spring term . |
| 17 | The tank had to go at the end of the little landing . |
| 18 | I found nothing ; it was as if they had vanished at the end of the revolution . |
| 19 | The upward slope of the function reflects the response of firms to an actual value for p which turns out to be greater or less than they had expected at the end of t - 1 . |
| 20 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 21 | The communist CGIL trade union confederation on Sept. 4 reconfirmed as its leader Bruno Trentin who had resigned at the end of July [ see p. 39025 ] . |
| 22 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 23 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 24 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 25 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 26 | The PS had decided at the end of August to preserve a loose electoral accord with the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Ali Muhammad al-Akrami , al-Ajili Muhammad ‘ Abdul Rahman al-Ashari , ‘ Ali Muhammad al-Qajji , Salih Omar al-Qasbi , Muhammad al-Saadiq al-Tarhouni and ‘ Abdul Qadir Muhammad al-Ya'qubi are believed to be in Abu Salim Prison in Tripoli , although AI received reports that ‘ Abdul Qadir Muhammad al-Ya'qubi had died at the end of 1988 . |
| 28 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 29 | Said that as Mother Demdike had escaped at the end of They Came And Ate Us , there was a loose end . |
| 30 | I did n't think so , I said er , I said suppose at the end of your wages . |