Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close and balance the TAB as if it were the end of the day 's business , adding and reconciling all totals : |
| 2 | Joynson-Hicks announced this to the Cabinet as though it were the end of constitutional government . |
| 3 | ‘ When they had that first trouble , Anna finding out about the prince and carrying on as if it were the end of the world , Constanza must have been about five or six ; she does n't even remember ; Mena does , every minute of it . |
| 4 | It was the end of the flat-12 Ferrari engine and the end of Scheckter 's driving career . |
| 5 | It was the end of his second , probably last , official visit . |
| 6 | It was the end of cabaret as far as we were concerned . |
| 7 | It was the end of the month . |
| 8 | It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag . |
| 9 | Apart from her visits to Marion and Hector and the babies , she was busy at the hives , for it was the end of the season , and they had all the honey to draw and store . |
| 10 | Old servants of the railway company came into the signal-box from which the broadcast was given and spoke of the closing of the station as if for them it was the end of a world . |
| 11 | You had to produce the right club , and if you made a mistake it was the end of you . |
| 12 | Now it was the end of a disappointing Tour , he was somewhere around the 50 mark in the rankings , running out of money , and talking about going home . |
| 13 | If you like astrology symbols like Carl Jung did , you would say that it was the end of the epoch of the Fish and the beginning of Aquarius . |
| 14 | It was the end of an era . |
| 15 | It was the end of my time in the Caribbean , of the sheltered , warm , family life that I had known there , and the beginning of a new and exciting era . |
| 16 | It was the end of a very interesting season . |
| 17 | It was the end of my 1983 season . |
| 18 | It was the end of naïveté and the beginning of a hard cynicism , especially with regard to the police . |
| 19 | I eased down , just holding on for the silver medal , but it was the end of my Commonwealth Games . |
| 20 | It was the end , he could play no more . |
| 21 | It was the end of his year . |
| 22 | In the 1990S it was the end of the road that started with living on credit like everyone else on the scale of everyone else , became slightly more extended than most and then wholly unmanageable . |
| 23 | Either way , though , it was the end of a medical career . |
| 24 | It was the end of daylight flying over Malta for the Fulmars . |
| 25 | It was the end of his flying on Malta . |
| 26 | Sunnie smiled but she knew it was the end |
| 27 | The row was like an earthquake but I did not think it was the end for us , ’ she said . |
| 28 | It was the end of October before he was allowed back to his lodgings . |
| 29 | It seemed it was the end . |
| 30 | For millionaire Mansell , 39 , with eight Grand Prix wins already this season and five races still remaining , it was the end of a 30-year dream . |