Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinner lasted one hour and , in spite of the impeccable and rapid service , guests were often caught in mid-mouthful when the Emperor and Empress rose to signal the end of the meal . |
| 2 | He looked back , nodding appreciatively , as Slater , talking quickly , waving his arms about , eyes glittering , seemed to approach the end of the story . |
| 3 | The decision to break was not taken in haste , but the culmination of years of little niggles which seemed to have no end in sight . |
| 4 | It is being shown on October 14 at 9pm , the time reckoned to mark the end of family viewing . |
| 5 | Therefore , having forced them to pay yasak , she strove to put an end to war . |
| 6 | Students have accused Education Secretary John Patten of failing to understand their basic needs , after he pledged to put an end to automatic membership of the student 's union . |
| 7 | However beyond the tree designated to mark the end of the hall , a neighbouring meadow revealed some newly-hatched ducklings . |
| 8 | Mathew believed that the war was responsible for an upward trend in homosexual behaviour and , together with Herbert Morrison , a policeman 's son , Labour right-winger and Home Secretary in the Attlee Government , sought to put an end to it . |
| 9 | The Transvaal provincial authorities on Oct. 2 , 1989 , met with a " Soweto People 's Delegation " , which included Archbishop Desmond Tutu , Cyril Ramaphosa ( the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers — NUM ) and Albertina Sisulu , the wife of leading ANC member Walter Sisulu [ for whose release from prison in October 1989 see p. 36964 ] , and agreed to negotiate an end to the three-year rent boycott in the black township of Soweto , which included a partial write-off of nearly US$100,000,000 in accumulated rent arrears . |
| 10 | She began to unplait the end of it , moving her own chair closer . |
| 11 | Edward returned from France determined to put an end to the rebellion . |
| 12 | Siding with the opposition in the 198-member Assembly , the dissidents sought to ensure an end to the military 's previous stranglehold on politics , which had ensured the routine re-election to the presidency of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner , dictator from 1953 until his removal by Rodríguez in a military coup in February 1989 [ see p. 36458 ] . |
| 13 | The bell rang to signal the end of the period but nobody moved . |
| 14 | At four thirty a bell rang to mark the end of lectures for the day . |
| 15 | she decided to put an end to it as gently as possible . |
| 16 | He threw in a good job with an insurance company to go off with a woman and ended up , broke and heartbroke , in a cheap caravan site outside Fort Worth , where he decided to put an end to himself . |
| 17 | The FSLN decided to call an end to the civil disobedience campaign , and to join in the national dialogue , following the negotiations on Oct. 2 between Daniel Ortega Saavedra , the Sandinista leader , and Antonio Lacayo , a close adviser to President Violeta Chamorro . |
| 18 | Karpov decided to enter an end game in the hope of relieving the pressure , but Short skilfully took control of the only open file on the board with both his rooks and activated the king and advanced his pawn majority on the queenside . |
| 19 | It was Gloucester who chose to put an end to it . |
| 20 | It was Gloucester who chose to put an end to it . |
| 21 | In the same vein , Failsafe is actually a more scary and realistic film , but Strangelove managed to make the end of the world seem both inevitable and hilarious . |
| 22 | Several kinds of trilobite failed to survive the end of the Ordovician , but other trilobites were still conspicuous during the Silurian and Devonian . |
| 23 | In that year the UK imported more manufactured goods than it exported ; it appeared to mark the end of its role as the workshop of the world . |
| 24 | Australia had been a whaling country until 1978 when an official enquiry , which was supported by all political parties , concluded that the public wished to see an end to whaling . |
| 25 | It was opposed by the renascent claims of the Provincial Juntas as direct representatives of the sovereign people ; by conservatives and malcontent grandees who hoped to put an end to Junta government altogether ; by the emergent power of the generals whose incipient Caesarism was represented by Palafox and Cuesta , both of whom were intriguing for political power . |
| 26 | It had been Christmas when she finally knew she had to call an end to it , before the relationship destroyed her completely . |
| 27 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 28 | He had to join the end of the queue and wait half a day before reaching him . |
| 29 | Today marked his last test flight from the station and the Jaguar pilots wanted to mark the end of a career which started with their squadron 25 years ago . |
| 30 | She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it . |