Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] end " in BNC.

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1 POOR U.S. unemployment figures plus big falls by Wellcome and BAT sent shares tumbling for a dismal end to the week .
2 Most of the day-to-day trade came from the man in the street , and it would be wrong to infer that every coffin-maker and funeral furnisher hungered after catering for the top end of the market .
3 Provided that Ali 's analysis of Hacihasanzade 's motives is correct-and one must remember that Ali is writing nearly a century after the event it would appear that already at the beginning of the sixteenth century the career of a kasabat kadi was regarded as a dead end .
4 YOUNG mum Angie Wilson is praying for a speedy end to her homeless heartache for she is expecting a third baby in just nine weeks time .
5 These were part of a mental/aural test designed for the upper end of the target attainment range and success rates for the lowest band are thus not available .
6 Though originally designed for the other end of the alimentary canal , it was ideal for my purposes ; it was virtually unbreakable and gave accurate readings in half the time of an ordinary clinical thermometer .
7 A slight ‘ upstand ’ at one end of the roof ensures that the water will not fall off the wrong end .
8 The borough council already looks after the eastern end of the ruined priory which was the first Augustinian monastery .
9 It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness .
10 Maidstone turned and shouted towards the far end of the bar : ‘ Franco ! ’
11 Her eyes peered towards the deep end , where Nails was holding his brother down and the lifeguard was getting worried .
12 Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself .
13 What looks like a dead end may only be the result of personal weakness .
14 Jimmy Airlie , chief union negotiator at the company , said : ‘ It looks like the thin end of the wedge . ’
15 During the night a couple of German shells crashed into the far end of the orchard near the road .
16 The sun beating down on them and the children splashing and laughing in the shallow end .
17 Over the years the number of grade Vs has quadrupled , with much over-crowding in the top end .
18 Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! "
19 The stress distribution in a glued joint is very far from uniform and , in a typical joint , such as Figure 1 , virtually the whole of the load is carried in the extreme ends or edges of the joint .
20 Hasan loved to stand in the shallow end , splashing his face and chest with the warm water , his face liked to the lights in the roof .
21 Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying .
22 The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn .
23 ‘ Yeah , though I take the wings of morning and fly to the uttermost ends of the sea , yet thou art with me . ’
24 Their on-off relationship , which seemed to come to a sudden end two years ago , was re-kindled earlier this year with a romantic holiday to Mauritius .
25 Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew .
26 Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net .
27 Yet he must contain the depths of his feelings , his hatred , his fervent wish to see his stepson come to a sorry end .
28 The career that looked so promising in 1974 has evidently come to a premature end .
29 ‘ You see , ’ the chief inspector went on , ‘ I 've come to a dead end . ’
30 Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on .
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