Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor . |
| 2 | Significantly , he added : ‘ If the answer is no , I 'll be letting them know by the end of this month . ’ |
| 3 | Sadly two of them perished before the end of the war and the two remaining , that I remember well , saw the end of the war . |
| 4 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |
| 5 | One can not train students and then let them fall off the end of the course into a professional abyss . |
| 6 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
| 7 | Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them . |
| 8 | I mean at the end of the day it becomes subjective , like choosing wallpaper . |
| 9 | I mean at the end of the year , we need to have sold a Because these people , they need to come for funding purposes . |
| 10 | Yeah yeah well it sounds sounds as though it 's possible you know you may have to I mean in the end you might have to sort of compromise it and actually do this valuation thing . |
| 11 | no not really , all that money , I mean in the end is it worth rescuing I say , I know it 's sport and I know what about it , but , it 's an awful lot of money though |
| 12 | I mean in the end he 's talking about they 've got the supreme authority but er but not actually yet even though he talks about revolution they 're not actually seizing the land unless they actually think the landlord 's done something wrong like erm rents or whatever . |
| 13 | Timothy will take his O levels you see during the summer term , well I mean by the end of June he 'd of finished those so that |
| 14 | ‘ I would have come after you , and unlike your father I 'd have found you , had I to go to the ends of the earth ! ’ |
| 15 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |
| 16 | As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation . |
| 17 | I got to the end of the passage , called — harmlessly enough — Edwards 's Shortcut . |
| 18 | When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't . |
| 19 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 20 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 21 | It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future . |
| 22 | I moved in the end from discomfort , from stiffness : made a couple of circling shuffles on my knees , an unthought-out search for a nest to lie in , to die in , maybe . |
| 23 | For some writers concerned with English language teaching , the notion of rhythm is a more practical matter of making a sufficiently clear difference between strong and weak syllables , rather than concentrating on a rigid timing pattern , as I suggest at the end of 14.1 . |
| 24 | I wandered round the end of the screen and sweetly asked him if he would like some coffee , and then watched the poor man 's jaw drop and his face go turkey red . |
| 25 | okay , sentence , sentence , I want to the end of the sentence . |
| 26 | I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options . |
| 27 | As I mentioned at the end of Chapter 1 , there is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica , all 30 volumes of it , three or four times over . |
| 28 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 29 | I came to the end of the bridge , where technically my territory stops , and stood still for a while , thinking , feeling , listening and looking and smelling . |
| 30 | But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data . |