Example sentences of "reach the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you feel really determined to reach the end of this programme ? |
| 2 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 3 | Of course , if a black hole as close as Pluto were to reach the end of its life and blow up , it would be easy to detect the final burst of emission . |
| 4 | In this case , it may be necessary to specify a start module to reach the end of the list , but this is really only required if there are currently more than 10 modules related to the SSR . |
| 5 | Sometimes I get out my violin and we all three play some music together , which is a kind of combination of work and conversation — it has all the tense absorption of the one , and all the anxiety to reach the end , together with all the wordless companionability of the other . |
| 6 | The leading crews are due to reach the end of their voyage at Southampton on Sunday . |
| 7 | The agency has plans to launch a second craft in April 1994 , at about the time that the first satellite reaches the end of its operational life . |
| 8 | When he reaches the end of his time |
| 9 | At the menopause a woman reaches the end of her childbearing years . |
| 10 | They then mime it to the group until someone guesses the right answer , and then the next person comes up until one team reaches the end of the list . |
| 11 | As it reaches the end of these , it automatically switches into record mode and the new shot begins to go onto the tape . |
| 12 | It would show how the research process occurs , how one group of specialists reaches the end of its expertise and takes advice , how many mistakes are made and truth arrived at circuitously . |
| 13 | If , when one reaches the end of a comic novel , one is left with the almost overwhelming urge to hang oneself , then it is a fair bet the novel has failed . |
| 14 | Pump the trigger ( c ) until the follower plate ( d ) reaches the end of the cartridge |
| 15 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 16 | Eventually , the message reaches the end of the line , and we read it ( or rather our 12,000th great grandchildren do , assuming that all the typists have a speed typical of a good secretary ) . |
| 17 | When the traffic reaches the end of the SDDR at Oadby , there is nowhere else for it to go . |
| 18 | Mechanistically it can be regarded as the movement of a kink in the chain along its length ( see figure 12.5 ) until this reaches the end of the chain and leaves it . |
| 19 | This sequence of depolarisation continues till it reaches the end of the axon and is known as self-propagation . |
| 20 | That old cowboy John Millar reaches the end of his very own Wild West adventure . |
| 21 | Sadly , his trail through some of the locations for classic moments of westerns past and present reaches the end of the road today . |
| 22 | When ever BBCBASIC(Z80) comes across a FOR , REPEAT , GOSUB , FN or PROC statement , it need to remember where it is in the program so that it can loop back or return there when it encounters a line with NEXT , UNTIL or RETURN statement or when it reaches the end of a function or procedure . |
| 23 | St Jovite reaches the end of his tether |
| 24 | With the first stroke I have already reached the end , said Picasso . |
| 25 | Having reached the end it went up on one wing , round through 180 ° in the space of fifty metres , and plummetted out of the sky on to the tarmac . |
| 26 | By the time they had reached the end of Jefferson Street for the first time , the US Grand Prix was all over . |
| 27 | The old Victorian hospital , which has performed miracles on thousands of sick children from all over the world in the intervening years , had reached the end of its life . |
| 28 | But last week the Russians admitted what aircraft experts have long claimed-that at least seven in 10 of its fleet have reached the end of their ‘ useful life ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 30 | The latter specification defines a satisfactory product ; it is only when the product has undergone change to the extent that it no longer complies fully with the check or shelf-life specification that it has reached the end of its shelf-life . |