Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | I realized he could not catch them , because they had nearly got to the ship , but I did not wait to see the end of that adventure . |
| 3 | High street spirits were further lifted by large crowds of post-Christmas shoppers in search of sales bargains , though this is not widely thought to herald the end of the recession . |
| 4 | Do you feel really determined to reach the end of this programme ? |
| 5 | Now she ca n't wait to see the end result , when Channel Four screens its adaptation of her best-selling novel early in the New Year . |
| 6 | You may sometimes wish to shorten the end of the previous shot by over-recording it with the beginning of the next one . |
| 7 | The manual alternative , in which you have to switch from record mode to play , and then check to find the end of the previous recording by trial and error before returning to record mode , is messy , time-consuming and wasteful of precious battery-time . |