Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 2 | Stepping down at the end , he lay on the bed of nails and rolled across it to the foot of the ladder , which he climbed , pausing on each blade to detach a yellow paper prayer flag and send it fluttering to the ground . |
| 3 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 4 | She saw him flex his ankle and wince , and she stood up and went over to him , kneeling down on the end of one of the sleeping-bags . |
| 5 | Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season . |
| 6 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 7 | Nick wandered down to the end of the garden . |
| 8 | However , they will break down at the end of the black hole 's life when its mass gets very small . |
| 9 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 10 | You know , I mean we 're here , well are you going down at the end of the week or something ? |
| 11 | And now get down to the end of the document . |
| 12 | ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’ |
| 13 | He walked down to the end . |
| 14 | The Council of the Zoological Society of London had planned to shut down at the end of September . |
| 15 | The current President , Ali Hassan Mwinyi , was elected in October 1985 ( when legislative elections were also held ) after Tanzania 's first President , Julius Nyerere , stepped down at the end of his term of office . |
| 16 | When the local government map was laid down at the end of the nineteenth century , many of the administrative units — for example , Anglo-Saxon shires and medieval boroughs — were already outdated . |
| 17 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 18 | If you do end it should go down to the end . |
| 19 | Jumping down at the end of his journey , the driver admitted : ‘ I still have n't got a phone . |
| 20 | After he had gone Tristram and Jennifer went down to the end of the orchard where they could be out of sight of the house . |
| 21 | He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made . |
| 22 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 23 | I looked down towards the end of the straight . |
| 24 | Go down to the end , and turn right . ’ |
| 25 | Go down to the end of the M62 . |
| 26 | STUART CANVAS PRODUCTS produce traditional wooden sightscreens , designed to be taken down at the end of the season for service and storage . |
| 27 | If you are elderly or disabled and the rubbish has to be taken down to the end of a long driveway can you cope ? |
| 28 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 29 | The steady release and peak indicates the best way to use this manure : if it is put down at the end of March , the peak comes towards the end of June . |
| 30 | Yes , but you 've got ta sit down in the end so |