Example sentences of "[vb past] up at the end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 2 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 3 | The words of Chris Bott , anarchist or , more politely , ‘ libertarian left ’ , as laid out in giant 36-point type and printed in lurid blue on a red background on the cover of Ink , one of the crop of underground papers that sprang up at the end of the 1960s . |
| 4 | A computerised machine was implanted in his chest last November but Mrs Priestley said it packed up at the end of last month and he was taken into hospital . |
| 5 | We pulled up at the end of the schooling stretch and trotted back to where Tremayne stood with his binoculars . |
| 6 | ‘ Right , constable , you can report in now , ’ Bragg said , as they pulled up at the end of Bartholomew Close . |
| 7 | They pulled up at the end of the gallop . |
| 8 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
| 9 | John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 10 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 11 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 12 | It is sometimes convenient to overwork the most efficient to the point where they become exhausted , but this is the quickest way to introduce bad habits such as leaving a kill or disregarding a rabbit tucked up at the end of a hole . |