Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the end " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Unfortunately my marriage to Andrew has come to the end .
4 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 .
5 The speaker has come to the end of a sentence and pauses .
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 ‘ We need a company that has come to the end of its natural life .
8 Kevin Kenny has come to the end of his time and wishes to be relinquished from the ‘ Home & Away ’ project .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 In the Middlesbrough area , Marton Sixth Form College has lost Mr Thomas Hume , who has retired at the end of a 28-year teaching career , and taking early retirement from Nunthorpe School in the summer after 19 years is Mrs Margaret Brown .
13 In the meantime , USL whose target of ten overseas joint ventures has slipped from the end of 1992 to the end of 1993 ( UX No 380 ) , says its next joint venture will be in either Mexico or Australia .
14 First , when there has been confrontation , it has been religion that has yielded in the end .
15 Middlesbrough-born Gill has signed until the end of the season and goes straight into the squad for tomorrow 's important game at Scunthorpe .
16 It also seems that the T5 , aka the 500MHz R10000 , the next step in the 2000 , 3000 , 4000 chain , has bounced from the end of next year into 1994 .
17 Have you ever noticed how a tradition , specifically concerning men only , has changed since the end of the last war ?
18 So he 'd won in the end .
19 ‘ That 's cruel , ’ said Lee , holding on to Caspar with two hands through the loop he 'd made in the end of the wire .
20 We 'd got to the end .
21 The client , it is hoped , will feel reassured at the end of the assessment interview .
22 In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate .
23 Is this the same as Carl , who we transfer listed at the end of last season ?
24 It is important that the design process does not become divorced from the end users .
25 Perhaps the most telling aspect of the great wad of paper work which MPs get handed at the end of the Budget statement was the revelation tucked away that , even on Norman Lamont 's most optimistic financial forecast , the UK would not be in a position to meet the European Economic convergence criteria laid down in the Maastricht Treaty .
26 Yeah but they get served in the end see , by the end of the night they get served do n't they , you know ?
27 Now the best film I 've ever seen him in is when he gets killed at the end !
28 No I did n't th I should imagine , I thought he said you did n't , I would imagine he gets paid at the end of the month .
29 ‘ If you can spend five weeks having the time of your life and get paid at the end of it — why not ? ’ he asks .
30 As long as you get paid in the end
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