Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] at [art] end " in BNC.
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1 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
2 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
3 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
4 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
5 | Yeah , they 're moving out at the end of this month . |
6 | We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out . |
7 | Any gains made are locked in at the end of the quarter . |
8 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
9 | Mr whalley , certainly a key figure in our enjoyment and our success , has kindly produced the figures that are set out at the end . |
10 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
11 | Questions are often raised in this respect as to whether disinfection should be carried out at the end of a day , after work or the following morning before work . |
12 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
13 | The scheme is due to be wound up at the end of December 1993 but until then , excepting one or two minor technical amendments affecting mortgage rescues/property management subsidiaries , the rules will remain unchanged . |
14 | Spring cabbage can be thinned out at the end of winter to their final spacings . |
15 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
16 | It does n't have to be slid on at the end of the needlebed . |
17 | ‘ Our mothers and fathers will be coming over at the end of the summer for the presentation of prizes . ’ |
18 | One Friday morning towards the end of the summer , Josh sat in the Guild Office , going through the wages list and making up the pay-packets to be doled out at the end of the day . |
19 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
20 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
21 | STUART CANVAS PRODUCTS produce traditional wooden sightscreens , designed to be taken down at the end of the season for service and storage . |
22 | The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with . |
23 | James 's problems were increased by a break in filming between the bulk of his scenes and a few that had to be tacked on at the end of the shoot . |
24 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
25 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
26 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
27 | Thanks to an over rate of 11.2 and the time lost to the weather being made up at the end , that fourth day became the longest in Test history , not finishing until 7.40 . |
28 | In order to stop the printer echo being turned off at the end of the CLI command file , the CLI is suspended with the " . |
29 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
30 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |