Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I joined at the end of July . ’ |
| 5 | And there he was , I went to look and I saw at the end there , a big pile of erm earth fresh earth you know . |
| 6 | I thought at the end both sides were happy to hear the final whistle . |
| 7 | ‘ I especially liked the bit where Macaulay Culkin got covered in paint , and I cried at the end when he said he wanted his mummy for Christmas , ’ she said . |
| 8 | All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails . |
| 9 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 10 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 11 | " And you 're sure you have n't got a hankering for this Terry ? " she asked at the end . |
| 12 | She moved at the end of |
| 13 | Her head ached : she could encompass no more , She felt as she felt at the end of some long and erudite lecture in a foreign tongue ; her mind would no longer pay attention . |
| 14 | If you have experienced adverse symptoms this week , you may not be feeling as well as you did at the end of last week . |
| 15 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 16 | ‘ Ring Mother Francis , ’ she said at the end . |
| 17 | And I could n't remember whether she said at the end of the three months or |
| 18 | exactly , it 'll be cos we looked at this last week as you said at the end what happens dripping acid onto |
| 19 | ‘ She wrote at the end , her last words to us , ‘ You are always in my thoughts , I always think of you ’ , ’ said Mrs Over . |
| 20 | Certainly , she reflected at the end of a long , tiring but satisfying day , she could n't have found a job more calculated to keep her mind off the past . |
| 21 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 22 | She stood at the end of Sarah 's bed , all eighteen stone of her . |
| 23 | Now Sam looked at his wife as she stood at the end of the long , dark-panelled bedroom , her back to the window , beyond which olive trees rustled in a hot breeze . |
| 24 | He grabbed her , reaching over to where she sat at the end of the sofa , turning her roughly by the arm so that she had to face him , had to look deep into his angry , ice-blue eyes . |
| 25 | Hazel Thorpe passed her last milestone with the Company when she retired at the end of July . |
| 26 | ‘ We met at the end of the war , ’ Sharpe said as though that explained everything . |
| 27 | We must stop , as we stopped at the end of the story of the binding of Isaac , that other story about God bringing a bearer of his promises to the brink of death , and ask more about what has been going on . |
| 28 | We heard at the end of the statement a characteristically honest and courageous statement by the Secretary of State . |
| 29 | We walked at the end of the group , idling along , looking at the scenery and day dreaming . |
| 30 | Even Vienna , which we reached at the end of the journey , seemed disappointing by comparison . |