Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike his father , he would remain there for the rest of his life , without resentment , becoming in the end a partner in a somewhat unenterprising firm . |
| 2 | The extension means the company will be able to continue trading until the end of the year at least . |
| 3 | Another South Yorkshire manager signing until the end of the 1992-3 season is Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett . |
| 4 | Walking round the end of the fence , he came to stand beside her . |
| 5 | He vacillated over the lorry-drivers ' strike , shrinking in the end from declaring a state of emergency and ruling out the use of troops to move medical supplies from the docks . |
| 6 | They accepted it and it was swiftly published , appearing before the end of 1938 . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it 's also like walking over the end of a plug-hole . |
| 8 | For a while , silence prevailed , except for the footsteps of the guide , walking to the end of the gallery and walking back , sighing in her progress , jingling her keys . |
| 9 | Returning to the end of the Masongill fell road , note Little Pot on the way down . |
| 10 | People and places , who 's in the studio and who 's releasing what with whom ( the latter now revised and reverting to the end of this section ) . |
| 11 | Yeah , but I mean , I 'm gon na take the heat off it 's pointless it blasting till the end |
| 12 | Ai n't you stayin' till the end of the party ? ’ |
| 13 | Finally , the additional time taken to read words occurring at the end of clauses and sentences might reflect the time taken to carry out syntactic processing of that particular clause or sentence . |
| 14 | A useful starting point is the reference sections appearing at the end of each major entry in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church already mentioned . |
| 15 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 16 | I agree that the appeal should be allowed and that declarations should be made in the terms appearing at the end of the judgment of Glidewell L.J . |
| 17 | A boy dangled a paper lantern over the dancers ' heads , a globe of pleated paper with a lit candle inside , bobbing at the end of a pole , a second moon . |
| 18 | Clients of licensed dealer Prior Harwin , for instance , welched on deals they had agreed on the telephone when the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) stopped the firm from trading at the end of 1986 . |
| 19 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |
| 20 | There was a daily requisition to carry troops to the Rossall rifle ranges , leaving between 8–30 and 9–30 and returning at the end of the afternoon . |
| 21 | Renting out the family home while working abroad on contract may not be particularly appealing ; but selling it and having no stake in the home housing market on returning at the end of the contract is by no means an ideal solution . |
| 22 | On his doctor 's orders he went up to Leeds and Scarborough in August , returning at the end of September . |
| 23 | Having set up his kingdom Christ would withdraw to heaven , returning at the end of the thousand years . |
| 24 | This coincided with the intensification of the pro-natalist campaign , but was probably due to the soldiers returning at the end of the Abyssinian war and the resultant rise in the number of marriages . |
| 25 | Both groups trained to attend to the sounds of words were significantly better at reading and spelling at the end of the study than the untrained group . |
| 26 | The events described in this sentence fall within the set of events described as happening by the end of the week ( in 4 ) . |
| 27 | The rest would have their grants ending by the end of September . |
| 28 | It is fairly well known that Martin bought the Swedish Levin Guitar factory in the 1970s and that Levin had ceased trading by the end of that decade . |
| 29 | The negotiations , under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Europe , aim to reach agreement on a new " sulphur protocol " , due to be ready for signing by the end of the year . |
| 30 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |