Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] to the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selous went on bird-watching and writing nearly to the end of his life and died at home in Weymouth 25 March 1934 . |
| 2 | Ellwood drove past and parked close to the end of the row . |
| 3 | We took that hill at a cracking pace , and as we handed over at the crest , and dropped back to the end of the column , Fr Courtney called out ‘ Well done I ’ to us . |
| 4 | She took a deep breath , held her head up and walked forward to the end of the table . |
| 5 | The bridge across the gjøgv seemed very slender and a long way above the sea surging below , but we made our way safely across and walked out to the end of the hølmur to where we could overlook the gannet colony . |
| 6 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
| 7 | The main roll out of cc:Mail is expected in September and to run through to the end of the year . |
| 8 | They believe the interpretation is from the period of the early Church and looked forward to the end of the world . |
| 9 | I swivelled and strode up to the end of a passage . |
| 10 | Alice Walker , the author , starts the letters at the beginning of the book , telling the story of a poor black 14 year old girl called Celie , and continues right to the end of the book when Celie is a middle aged woman . |
| 11 | The school year at the academy was divided into two long terms , the first of these commencing in September and stretching right to the end of January . |