Example sentences of "[verb] and [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Wilkins , at 36 playing better than ever , was instrumental in the club 's 2-0 win at Wimbledon and said : ’ We were committed and in the end we came through . ’ |
| 2 | Aung San 's demand for eleven seats out of fifteen was not conceded and at the end of the month the Governor appointed a Council of ten members , of whom only two were British . |
| 3 | Our role is to propose a prudent council tax and that is what we 've done and at the end of the day I agree , the figures are juggled one way or another but it does show a net saving of one point three million and however you look at it Mr Mayor I 'm sure the leader of the council , if he adopted these proposals , could then find somewhere a sum for a stress control officer . |
| 4 | Yes , yes but if you do that you 're , you 're , you 're tea towel 's soaking and at the end of the night |
| 5 | April came and by the end of it I felt exceedingly well . |
| 6 | But the protesters were oumumbered and at the end of an hour they had been thrown out , some of them after suffering enough physical damage to require a visit to the casualty department of Hammersmith hospital . |
| 7 | erm Arthur used to listen and in the end er , I think Johnny went off , you know , satisfied that somebody had listened to him |
| 8 | The doctor sounded her chest , asking questions about the pain , and all the time trying to keep a sober , professional look though his hands were trembling and in the end he had to sit down to conceal his excitement . |
| 9 | toilet , in Bon 's , in Dan 's loo at Bon 's party cos I 'm going round going oh no no no no I 'll give you a fiver for it I went I really do n't want to sell and in the end like I just said to him look just fuck off , you know cos like he was just persistent |
| 10 | At present , almost 80% of the 280 or so necessary legislative measures have been adopted and by the end of the year it is expected to be 90% . |
| 11 | He stood there for a time , head bowed and in the end , simply said no . |
| 12 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 13 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 14 | " I 've thought and thought and in the end I decided I 'd have to leave . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what we hated and in the end we found it intolerable . |
| 16 | Well what this suggests is that and she likes Mary accounts as a legitimate string with and at the beginning of the sentence , but she likes Mary does n't , so you ca n't stick and at the end of the sentence . |
| 17 | Hahnemann was the first to start modifying what he himself had enunciated and towards the end of his life he developed a further series of dilutions which he called the LM potencies , in which the material was diluted 1 in 50,000 at each step , rather than the more usual 1 in 10 or 1 in 100 dilution steps . |
| 18 | Public transport was initially most affected and by the end of the month postal services , refuse collection and hospital services were disrupted in cities and towns across western Germany . |
| 19 | Our son 's achievement level soared and at the end of the school year he received a glowing report from his teachers . |
| 20 | Minton went to apologise and by the end of his visit both he and Lindsay are said to have been very drunk and reconciled . |
| 21 | The toasts to Gaby , the protestations persisted and in the end the two reeled out of the café arm-in-arm at two in the morning swearing eternal friendship . |
| 22 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |
| 23 | The name stuck and by the end of the day it seemed to Murray that every child in the school covertly sniggered ‘ Toady ’ as he passed . |
| 24 | For the last two lines I usually get everyone to clap and at the end to raise their hands and shout ‘ Oi ’ |
| 25 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 26 | The majority of Danes asking ‘ Geoff Who ? ’ were soon enlightened and by the end of the evening there was hum of comment about this tasteful guitarist with a tone that would impress Peter Green himself ! |
| 27 | As the word spread that potatoes were a very good food to eat people 's reluctance to include potatoes in their diet was overcome and by the end of the 18th Century almost every country in Europe had accepted this knobbly brown tuber as part of their everyday diet . |
| 28 | We set standards , standards evolve we are coming to the stage now in nineteen ninety three the standards that are being set are changing and at the end of the day the hunt have got to come along with us . |
| 29 | Then the kids will get worse problems and go bad sure as sure , and they 'll have to be rehoused and in the end they 'll cost ten times as much . |
| 30 | Only one contestant appeared and at the end of the prescribed waiting period , the hour of nine he asked for the non-appearance of his adversary to be legally recorded . |