Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if anyone came in for me I would n't want to go before the end of the season . |
| 2 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 3 | Shall I shuffle along , do you want to sit on the end ? |
| 4 | You 'll want to wait till the end of the month before I put mine in |
| 5 | However , ministers failed to agree by the end of June on a complementary Convention on External Frontiers harmonizing immigration policy . |
| 6 | The extension means the company will be able to continue trading until the end of the year at least . |
| 7 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 8 | It is more a standard , a form of self-reliance , a determination that if one has to go in the end , better be correctly dressed . |
| 9 | The working party is expected to report by the end of March 1993 . |
| 10 | A separate Jockey Club inquiry into starting procedures , headed by Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles , is expected to report by the end of the summer when several changes are likely to be recommended . |
| 11 | A Jockey Club inquiry into starting procedures , headed by Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles , is expected to report by the end of the summer . |
| 12 | A separate Jockey Club inquiry into starting procedures , headed by Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles , is expected to report by the end of the summer when several changes are likely to be recommended . |
| 13 | The war of resolutions overshadowed the Congress , which should have ended proceedings yesterday but which is expected to continue until the end of the week , as it discusses amendments to the Russian constitution . |
| 14 | A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them . |
| 15 | Alicia uses it only when the family has come to the end of its own resources and then it brings happiness and prosperity to them all . |
| 16 | ‘ Unfortunately my marriage to Andrew has come to the end . |
| 17 | One of the most famous amplifiers of all time , the Quad 405 has come to the end of its production run with the 100,000th unit . |
| 18 | The speaker has come to the end of a sentence and pauses . |
| 19 | ‘ The van I used to use to transport my bikes has come to the end of its day , and Bill Doig has very kindly offered me the use of the station van if it is not required for company duties . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We need a company that has come to the end of its natural life . |
| 21 | Kevin Kenny has come to the end of his time and wishes to be relinquished from the ‘ Home & Away ’ project . |
| 22 | Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent . |
| 23 | More urgently , one could be forearmed against the Antichrist , the powerful , personal opponent of Christ who ( as in 1 John 2:18 ) was expected to appear before the end of the world . |
| 24 | The US Congress is considering legislation for limited tort reform , he added , but that is not expected to progress before the end of the year . |
| 25 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 26 | I 'd like to , just like to say that a woman erm , who can not have children erm and re has got to the end of the road , no medical mirac , miracles can help her , erm , if surrogacy is the only option for her then they 've , these pe , couples like myself have gone through such a long erm struggle to get where they are that any child that 's conceived is gon na be a wonderfully loved childed and explained , everything 's explained to the child as he or she grows up . |
| 27 | Para 5.1.1 We suggest adding at the end ‘ … is treated equitably within the constraints of corporate and strategic planning . |
| 28 | An aim can be taken to be a statement of intent on the part of the teacher , usually expressed in general terms , whilst an objective is a statement describing in specific terms what the student is expected to do at the end of a course of learning experience . |
| 29 | A plausible explanation has to do with the end of the cold war . |
| 30 | If some of the Appeal Committee members do not turn up , or if an Appeal Committee member has to leave before the end of the hearing , the hearing must be adjourned . |