Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them . |
| 2 | I know it has been done , but when , For Ormskirk we wanted , we were looking to interview at the end of the M fifty eight |
| 3 | As an alternative subjects were instructed to wait until the end of a film before giving any description . |
| 4 | They sort of could n't care less if you were going to leave at the end of the fourth year . |
| 5 | All their time was spent on the ones that were going to stay on , so ones that were going to leave at the end of the fourth year were never there and nobody sort of worried about them . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You were bound to ask in the end . |
| 7 | The rest were scheduled to arrive before the end of September . |
| 8 | In September the Council warned that wheat stocks held by the five biggest exporters — Argentina , Australia , Canada , the European Commodities and the USA , were set to fall by the end of the 1989-90 season to levels not seen since the food crisis of the mid-1970's . |