Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 2 | I 'm sure we 're near the end now , ’ Maureen comforted her . |
| 3 | Yeah , the tension is slipping a bit and I 've done a few foolish things , but that 's not because we 're near the end of the wait . |
| 4 | so you 're in the end , you have to say to him , well you 'll have to wet your pants , cos because , it 's like a bi bit longer the trek . |
| 5 | Well you tell a bloke you wo n't get it while you 're until the end of next week , cos I 'm doing a bloke 's spitfire , I ai n't pissing around doing a flaming grill |
| 6 | You 're at the end of the road . ’ |
| 7 | And so the er , the reward for our firm grip on costs and the concentration on cash is a favourable swing of , of forty seven er , million pounds in the full year and there should be more to come because now we 're at the end of our er , capital spend on newspapers er , the newspapers will of course , become very substantial cash generators . |
| 8 | How do you know if you 're at the end of a sentence . |
| 9 | ‘ Um — is that putting patients in order of priority as they come in so that you do n't leave people to bleed to death because they 're at the end of the queue ? ’ |
| 10 | But can I say something erm , Bill , we 're at the end of a Parliament erm John Major |
| 11 | This must have been near the end of the furnace 's working life , as some time during the following decade , the buildings were converted to a paper mill . |
| 12 | I still have one or two but they are near the end of their useful life . |
| 13 | Many eastern states are near the end of their landfill capacity . |
| 14 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 15 | Certain kinds of one-way traffic , certain kinds of one-way street , are in the end not hard to negotiate . |
| 16 | The words of the Johannine Jesus , ‘ I came that they may have life , and have it abundantly ’ , are in the end apt comment on this story . |
| 17 | State officials are in the end constrained by the capitalists ' control of the economy , since economic performance decides the electoral success of politicians and the revenues of state organizations . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh yes ’ her mother had said with a smile of-surprisingly-reminiscence ; ‘ the dashing types usually are in the end . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ All problems are in the end political . |
| 20 | According to traditions in Benin , casting was introduced there from Ife at a date estimated to be towards the end of the 14th century , about a century before the first European contact with Benin was made by sea . |
| 21 | It could be towards the end of your assignment you want to fin wrap it up get one la one last slot and you say , Yeah you can have a ten percent . |
| 22 | But in this year the first year of the project , because it will be towards the end of the year anyway it has no revenue , net revenue effect . |
| 23 | I 'm near the end of the trail , Dad . |
| 24 | In November church bells were rung to celebrate the victory at El Alamein , and everyone felt that at last the war might be near the end , although Churchill told them they were wrong . |
| 25 | Having said this , I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature . |
| 26 | Important : where the bend in the pipe needs to be near the end , bend the pipe before cutting it . |
| 27 | When Charley dies it will be like the end of an object or the closing of a book or the last date of an epoch . |
| 28 | There were to be no aisles , crosses or altars ; the pulpit must be against the end wall facing the congregation . |
| 29 | In Moments of Reprieve he remarks : ‘ What the ‘ true ’ image of each of us may be in the end is a meaningless question . ’ |
| 30 | While it does set out to include and explicate the sense of the whole movement of history , history itself seems to be in the end rather unimportant . |