Example sentences of "[verb] be the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS has been the end of an era . |
| 2 | To return to the enjoyment of looking at gibbons , it will be agreed that it is not an activity separate from looking at them , not an end to which looking is the means ( as looking is the end to which visiting the zoo is the means ) . |
| 3 | And these wishy-washy types celebrated what they believed was the end of a bothersome cult . ’ |
| 4 | That should have been the end of it . |
| 5 | Doone , with his promise of instant detection once I woke up , must have been the end of hope . |
| 6 | It would have been the end of The Wedding Present , ’ says Solowka . |
| 7 | I think it must have been the end of a beautiful friendship . |
| 8 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 9 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 10 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
| 11 | As Michael Gordon explained in these pages two decades ago : ‘ If all Blake had offered was a framework , that would have been the end of it . |
| 12 | It would seem from the pleadings to which I have referred that that should have been the end of the case . |
| 13 | If Carson had been predictably agreeable and obviously interested she would have accepted the lift and that , apart perhaps from the promise of a follow-up lunch some time , would have been the end of it . |
| 14 | That would not have been the end of it , but it would have put off the worst , and Tutilo seldom looks beyond the day . |
| 15 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
| 16 | ‘ That , ’ he continued , ‘ would have been the end of the matter , but Dame Martha had to chatter and threaten to talk to the Lady Prioress . |
| 17 | If he had said , ‘ You need me , ’ then that would have been the end for him . |
| 18 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 19 | One Tory rebel , Michael Carttiss , who caved in after a plea from the Prime Minister himself , candidly admitted : ‘ It would have been the end of John Major . |
| 20 | that would have been the end of my turn . |
| 21 | At the end of the alley I paused , waiting , but all I saw was the end of a nose which quietly withdrew as I stood there . |
| 22 | The Session would not agree to the time ; and that seems to have been the end of it . |
| 23 | He got into trouble in Holland for exporting arms to a bunch of rebels in one of the new African states , and that seems to have been the end of his freight business . |
| 24 | Interrupted or not , the extant text of the Interludium ends exactly at the end of a line and sentence , which by reference to Dame Sirith we can argue is the end of this particular speech from Mome Elwis . |