Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Returning to the end of the Masongill fell road , note Little Pot on the way down . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The first of four complaints was that the trial judge exerted undue pressure by sending the jury out to consider their verdict at 5.28 p.m. after they had spent the day listening to the end of the prosecuting counsel 's closing address and the whole of the summing up , but their Lordships consider that this was a reasonable course to have taken . |
| 5 | I was listening to the end bit , I was saying what were we about at the end . |
| 6 | Excuse me excuse me boys we have er we have a rare opportunity here to have er a bring the sales meeting to an end where we will resume in the sub-committee , the third party in the sales office users sub-committee |
| 7 | Besides , with this creed I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime , I can so sincerely forgive the first , while I abhor the last with this creed revenge never worries my heart , degradation never too deeply disgusts me , injustice never crushes me too low , I live in calm looking to the end . |
| 8 | ‘ All that stuff about community meant you could leave the kids with your mum if you had something to do , and you would n't grass on Charlie if the police came looking for him , and you could borrow ten bob to keep you going to the end of the week . |
| 9 | No , it 's it 's going to the end of the interview . |
| 10 | Second , addition of records to the file is no longer a matter of adding to the end of the file . |
| 11 | Consequently , you would use OPENUP for reading serial and random files , adding to the end of serial files or writing to random files . |
| 12 | Across the floor they came , edgy as hell but mortally excited , the nerves spiralling to the ends of their hair , each with her special details of shape and shadow , of torque and thrust . |
| 13 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 14 | Ironically , part of the British problem was due to the success of the OEEC and EPU : under their efforts sterling had become convertible in most circumstances into other countries ' currencies , leading to the end of Britain 's restrictions on sterling which in the past had enabled it to protect its markets in the sterling area . |
| 15 | It is like turning to the end of the story before you begin reading it , to find out if the bad dies got their just deserts , or the good guys won . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's through here , ’ said Rosheen , pointing to the end of the tunnel . |
| 17 | The remaining arrangements of music by Borodin , Chopin , Rimsky , Liszt and Tchaikovsky hardly maintain this level of emotional charge , but if you want to stand any chance of getting to the end of your meal , that 's probably just as well ! |
| 18 | ‘ I was getting to the end of the three years when I was approached by Amalgamated Metal . |
| 19 | We 're just getting to the end of that now , we 'll be another mark on the er five year list you know between eighty seven and ninety two . |
| 20 | getting to the end now ? |
| 21 | Mind you it 's getting to the end of the run as well is n't it now ? |
| 22 | getting to the end , you know the important bit of the sale |
| 23 | Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past . |
| 24 | Sir I I 'm just not sure how you how you want to play this because you may feel I beginning to feel we 're probably getting to the end of this circuit here . |
| 25 | You can pack it up , but you can still see the front so you know how near you 're getting to the end of your job . |
| 26 | And linnets ( ‘ with bouncy flight ’ ) were on the move , flying to the end of the Point . |
| 27 | Notice the hints of Stoicism ; of facing experiences , not shirking them ; of enduring and continuing to the end , six years before the Elegiac Stanzas ( p. 140 ) . |
| 28 | The birth weight of newborn infants , either male or female , first increases steeply with maternal age up to about age 25 years ( on the average by 300 grammes ) , then slower to about age 35 , when it reaches the zenith and , from this age , begins to decrease , continuing to the end of the childbearing ages . |
| 29 | If they are right , then Clinton , barnstorming to the end and almost hoarse , should do it . |
| 30 | Locomotive No. 432 will be the only one running to the end . |