Example sentences of "[modal v] be the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think this should be the end of it . |
| 2 | ‘ Miss Fenemore , they do say that if a man has done wrong , and has been punished for it , that should be the end of it . |
| 3 | The Regulation enters into force on 1 January 1993 or as soon as it is approved by the European Parliament , which should be the end of March . |
| 4 | So that should be the end of it , I thought , full stop . |
| 5 | That should be the end of the matter . ’ |
| 6 | I should be the end . |
| 7 | This must be the end of civilisation as Americans know it . |
| 8 | Then in the end we came to a river so wide I could n't see the other bank ; I felt frightened and thought this must be the end of the race , and I wanted to stop , but Father plunged straight in without looking at me so I had to plunge in too . |
| 9 | This , then , must be the end at which all this diversion was aiming . |
| 10 | I thought this must be the end for all three of us but in fact all the policeman wanted to do was to stop any traffic going on to the Via Emilia as a big convoy was on its way south towards Parma . |
| 11 | I could n't go out and leave everything unattended , so I remained and waited for what I thought must be the end . |
| 12 | The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life . |
| 13 | I 've thought no , it must be the end of the cycle and as I 've said that the old fucking foam started to pour out |
| 14 | He admitted : ‘ This might be the end . |
| 15 | What would have happened , she wondered , if she 'd told the woman the truth , that it just might be the end of the world , that she could n't keep going through the days this way , plodding from home to work and back again , with nothing to devote her energies to , nothing to occupy her thoughts — except Nicolo , and how much she despised him ? |
| 16 | Dr Jeffrey does not rule out the possibility that privatisation might be the end result of the exercise . |
| 17 | You ever lift your hand to me and that 'll be the end . ’ |
| 18 | LAY SOME EGGS OR IT 'LL BE THE END OF US . |
| 19 | And when he 's caught , that 'll be the end . |
| 20 | I thought : That 's it — he 's off to London to the bright lights and that 'll be the end of us . ’ ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to stop you , but if you send off a cheque this weekend , that 'll be the end of it . ’ |
| 22 | It 'll be the end of the only business of it 's kind . |
| 23 | He says that if Sainsbury 's is allowed to build a supermarket on the outskirts of town it 'll be the end of many small business in the town . |
| 24 | It 'll be the end of June before you finish , twenty what ? |
| 25 | Maybe this 'll be the end , the end of Christmas time . |
| 26 | If you have no back-ups , then one day you will lose it and that could be the end of your business . |
| 27 | He , like other founders of the paper , fears that if the damages award is not lowered considerably it could be the end of the road for Pressdram Ltd , the Eye 's publisher , after decades of public wars with the great and the powerful . |
| 28 | A tall order , but the price of failure could be the end of collective security for the West . |
| 29 | ‘ It could be the end of his life as well . ’ |
| 30 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |