Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wallpaper in the house is black from condensation and I am at the end of my tether . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't got many wits , but I 'm at the end of them . |
| 3 | well I 'm at the end of it |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a great comfort to me , knowing that I 'm on the end of a phone , should either of my children be taken ill , ’ says Elaine , 34 , a part-time marketing consultant and mother of two girls under four . |
| 5 | I 'm near the end of the trail , Dad . |
| 6 | We stayed in a cottage on the cliffs , overlooking the harbour , and within moments of arrival , my brother Ian and I were at the end of the pier , fishing . |
| 7 | ‘ Yours is at the end there , ’ said the Headmaster . |
| 8 | His heavily built wife showed me my room and soon I was on the end of a bench in the small dark restaurant , supping soup with the few day-trippers ; listening to their stories . |
| 9 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 10 | I think I was at the end of the line . |
| 11 | I felt as if I was at the end of a long tunnel where someone was kicking my legs . |
| 12 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 13 | That here you are at the end of another year , perhaps not healthy , wealthy and wise but — well — alive . |
| 14 | ‘ Then you see her and accept it and you are at the end of the first stage . |
| 15 | So probably the sensible thing to do is to give you six weeks worth er one a day , si twenty eight , y g give you eight weeks worth and then see how you are at the end of two months continuous treatment . |
| 16 | You 're at the end of the road . ’ |
| 17 | How do you know if you 're at the end of a sentence . |
| 18 | Well you tell a bloke you wo n't get it while you 're until the end of next week , cos I 'm doing a bloke 's spitfire , I ai n't pissing around doing a flaming grill |
| 19 | so you 're in the end , you have to say to him , well you 'll have to wet your pants , cos because , it 's like a bi bit longer the trek . |
| 20 | Remember , if you get a mild reaction , you will need to proceed with caution until you can tell whether that food or food group is causing you to feel less well or less able to lose weight than you were at the end of Stage I. |
| 21 | She was at the end of her patience . |
| 22 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 23 | Their mother seemed to rally as she always did for her children but no matter how she tried to conceal it , it was clear to all of them that she was near the end of her strength . |
| 24 | Canada 's minister for the environment , John Roberts , said ‘ We are at the end of an exhaust pipe … which starts in the US . ’ |
| 25 | Chris explained : ‘ The length of this recession has n't been accurately predicted by anyone — for example , American economists were forecasting that the US would pull out of recession in 1992 , but here we are at the end of the year and nothing much has changed . |
| 26 | So here we are at the end of 1992 and I should like to thank you all for the tremendous hard work you have put into it . |
| 27 | But now , I think , there are signs that er things are beginning to pick up , certainly we 're being told things are beginning to pick up and I think probably as an office generally , we 're experiencing that upturn , although er every time we get some special job in , suddenly we think we are at the end of a recession and perhaps , you know , it 's the next job that really we ought to be looking to . |
| 28 | Sitting as we are on the end of the millennium , there is bound to be a lot of reflective soul searching . |
| 29 | And so the er , the reward for our firm grip on costs and the concentration on cash is a favourable swing of , of forty seven er , million pounds in the full year and there should be more to come because now we 're at the end of our er , capital spend on newspapers er , the newspapers will of course , become very substantial cash generators . |
| 30 | But can I say something erm , Bill , we 're at the end of a Parliament erm John Major |