Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | I SHALL be so sorry to see the end of the florin . |
| 2 | The leading crews are due to reach the end of their voyage at Southampton on Sunday . |
| 3 | But the other quarter — the professional bit — is so relieved to see the end of that ghastly place that it ca n't help rejoicing in a perverse sort of way . ’ |
| 4 | I also reminded her of her predictions concerning Lord Lovat and herself , and that I hoped very much to see the end of the campaign in Normandy and looked forward to meeting her again in the Highlands . |
| 5 | Ropes and wires are fairly simple to test since it is easy to grip the ends by winding them round the barrel of a winch or capstan . |
| 6 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 7 | Because as I ask him some question about women , wine or wit Dudley Moore is busy chewing his nails until they might well bleed , it does n't seem too rude to mention the ends of his fingertips . |
| 8 | The music wanders on , it is hard to tell the end of one phrase from the beginning of another , and the theme loses shape and becomes unmemorable . |
| 9 | More information was to be obtained on offenders , and their backgrounds , in order that the courts might select methods of disposal ‘ most likely to achieve the ends of justice in relation to the individual offender ’ . |
| 10 | It is useful to bind the ends with drafting tape to avoid accidents ! |
| 11 | She had the unusual skill of being able to pull the end down like a tapir when she was angry . |
| 12 | Not until the beginning of his second administration in 1973 was Nixon able to announce the end of the Vietnam War . |
| 13 | Presumably Pool has been able to predict the end of the Dalek War — and therefore the probability of Earth Central taking an interest in what 's going on here ? ’ |
| 14 | In the arable sector , it is clearly important to reduce the end price and to ensure that farmers are able to continue to look after the land . |
| 15 | Marx is therefore able to explain the end of slavery as being due to the fact that wage workers actually were cheaper to use than slaves . |
| 16 | ‘ It brought us very close as a family , and we were able to make the end of his life as peaceful and comfortable as possible . |
| 17 | Equally , if the mouse was a pest and we are pleased to see the end of it , we do not praise the cat for the saintly way in which it has fulfilled its duty to its household . |
| 18 | Well , there are strange little bits of old-fashioned good Englishness about , dating perhaps from the late forties , when city streets were safe and when people of good will in England were happy and even proud to see the end of Empire . |
| 19 | Following the April 1989 PoW releases [ see p. 36602 ] , Iran unilaterally freed a further 49 sick , wounded and disabled Iraqi prisoners on May 23 to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan . |