Example sentences of "ended with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was followed by Michael Foot who made a strong attack on the Government and ended with the devastating charge that the Falkland Islanders had been betrayed and ‘ the whole responsibility for the betrayal rests with the Government ’ . |
| 2 | The day ended with the exhausted staff pleased to be going home — but well satisfied with the £150 they had collected . |
| 3 | The era of the great train-shed more or less ended with the Great War . |
| 4 | The article ended with the following paragraph : ‘ Actually , how could Dai Qing be an elite of China 's intelligentsia ? |
| 5 | The book ended with the naval officer , then the description in the last line |
| 6 | The legal process which followed ended with the Supreme Court 's decision on July 17 . |
| 7 | The authority of the verderers , like that of the coroners , had ended with the previous reign , so the king sent out orders to the sheriffs to make arrangements for the election of ‘ as many verderers as there ought to be and used to be ’ in nineteen forests south of Trent , and in Sherwood Forest north of it , ‘ as no verderer is as yet elected therein by command of the King , |
| 8 | ‘ The announcement would n't even reach half the city in that time , ’ the young officer protested hesitantly ‘ You 'd be ordering us to shoot anyone on the stree — ’ His speech ended with the full stop of a heavy bullet in the face . |
| 9 | It began with the murder of John Lennon and ended with the Rolling Stones back on the road . |
| 10 | The Eighties began with The Magic Of Boney M and ended with the never-ending saga of the Rolling Stones . |
| 11 | A two-game tour Hong Kong in January , including one international , ended with the embarrassed hosts wondering how the Taiwanese had learned to roll mauls and ruck with such proficiency and ferocity . |
| 12 | North called it ‘ a bit of a horror story ’ and , for once , he understated : it went wrong from start to finish , and ended with the wrong missiles , still with their Israeli markings , piled on the ground in Tehran . |