Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at the end [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
2 | 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 ! |
3 | And he shook her at the end of each question . |
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 | Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition . |
6 | We went dancing in discos and an Italian boy , Giacomo , kissed me at the end of a dance . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
9 | After one interview in the relatively early days , my mentor , Ron Evans buttonholed me at the end of the programme . |
10 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
11 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
12 | Captain Ian Farquhar ( 47 ) , of the Beaufort Hunt , was said to be planning an appeal after North Avon magistrates at Yate , near Bristol , convicted him at the end of a three-day trial yesterday . |
13 | ‘ You saw it at the end of winter , ’ Marc told her , switching off the engine and turning to examine her features . |
14 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
15 | BRM scrapped it at the end of 1967 . |
16 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | My first school expelled me at the end of second year . |
19 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
20 | Whatever awaited her at the end of this journey she would face . |
21 | Captain Slocum did it at the end of the nineteenth century . ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | ‘ You probably said it at the end of the 1960s . ’ |
24 | After this he was a little unlucky with injuries and left us at the end of 1935–36 , having served honourably and well . |
25 | The Palace was Whibley 's only League club and , when he left us at the end of 1922–23 , he returned to his home town to play for Sittingbourne . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | He was still writing verses but , according to Hooton 's notes , he abandoned them at the end of this year under the influence of Pater . |
28 | The Collective State Presidency , after several abortive attempts to meet , also finally endorsed it at the end of a 14-hour session on July 12 ( again not attended by Drnovsek ) , but imposed new demands and deadlines . |