Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] the end " in BNC.

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1 Surprisingly , it did not feel too cold and Endill stood for a moment trying to see the end of it but it disappeared into darkness .
2 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 .
3 However beyond the tree designated to mark the end of the hall , a neighbouring meadow revealed some newly-hatched ducklings .
4 The bell rang to signal the end of the period but nobody moved .
5 At four thirty a bell rang to mark the end of lectures for the day .
6 Several kinds of trilobite failed to survive the end of the Ordovician , but other trilobites were still conspicuous during the Silurian and Devonian .
7 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 .
8 The software used to produce the end results is , by and large , fairly irrelevant .
9 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 .
10 It is being shown on October 14 at 9pm , the time reckoned to mark the end of family viewing .
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