Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] 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 | However , ministers failed to agree by the end of June on a complementary Convention on External Frontiers harmonizing immigration policy . |
| 3 | On the joint initiative of France and West Germany , they also set in motion a process expected to lead by the end of 1990 to the holding of an intergovernmental conference on EC political union . |
| 4 | The sound was so terrific the trains seemed to pass across the end of the bed , and we drew up our feet instinctively . |
| 5 | A gaunt building , Roscommon 's former prison formed a wall that seemed to seal off the end of the town . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Amdahl hopes to eventually supplement its dwindling mainframe income with revenue from these Sparc-based machines , expected to ship at the end of 1993 . |
| 8 | In February , after an exhausting series of tests , the doctor let us in on the secret my father strove to keep until the end of his life . |
| 9 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 10 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 11 | She cut out her morning bathe , cut down her luncheon to minutes , stuck to work till the end of the afternoon ( Concentrate , Do n't stop : if Michel can do his kind of reading in an open car in the street … ) . |
| 12 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 13 | They were united in the implementation of sanctions against Iraq after the latter 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , but differing positions began to emerge by the end of the year [ see p. 37927 ; 37934 ] and the French government 's 11-hour attempt to avoid conflict was made without consultation with its EC counterparts [ see p. 37935 ] . |
| 14 | It was the Church , and more specifically the papacy , as Ullmann pointed out , that from the mid-eighth century kept the Roman law alive in the West by its own transmission and absorption of Roman law and Roman law principles of government , and in particular in the imperial idea which the papacy began to foster from the end of that century . |
| 15 | Concern about the employment effects of new technology began to re-emerge at the end of the 1970s . |
| 16 | Their dominance outside the Americas grew into a world supremacy which reached a climax at the beginning of the first world war and began to crumble before the end of the second . |
| 17 | He began to move towards the end of the bar where Jacko Roberts was drinking alone . |
| 18 | The major , striking and henceforth continuous improvement in these conditions only began to occur after the end of our period . |
| 19 | This finally freed Raybestos to begin production , which they expected to start by the end of the month . |
| 20 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 21 | The Policy and Resources Committee decided to wait until the end of an appeal by Richard Shield , the man who was sacked for recruiting Tommy Sheppard . |
| 22 | In fact , I decided to concentrate on the end of the overture , the ‘ allegro vivace ’ . |
| 23 | According to their account , the professional-managerial class started to develop towards the end of the nineteenth century as a class which specialized in the ‘ reproduction of capitalist class relations ’ became necessary . |
| 24 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 25 | Many of the relatives and friends who rated the homes as an excellent place for the person who died to live towards the end of his or her life made rather perfunctory comments : ‘ I ca n't fault the home ’ ; ‘ It was very nice , no qualms about it . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had to drive to the end of the street to turn round ; when she passed Giles 's house on the way back the door was closed . |
| 28 | The British had to wait until the end of the 1930s for that luxury . |
| 29 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 30 | The tank had to go at the end of the little landing . |