Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at the end " in BNC.
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| 31 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 32 | ‘ I was playing better at the end and if it had been a five set match I think I could have fought back . ’ |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Call like Green Woodpecker , but more musical , slower and falling away at the end . |
| 35 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
| 36 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 37 | Erm , in we were not sitting here at the end of our , how many years is it now , thirteen , fourteen years . |
| 38 | The judge was summing up at the end of the Old Bailey trial of PC Peter Anderson , 41 , based at Surbiton police station in Surrey , who is accused of raping the woman on 4 April last year . |
| 39 | In his summing up at the end of ‘ Prospect ’ , the Chief of Air Staff , Sir Dermot Boyle , publicly expressed the RAF 's opposition to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 40 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form : it says the product will make it easy for systems administrators to manage , configure , change , monitor , and enforce security of NT systems across large networks , and enable systems managers to manage Windows NT and Unix systems , as well as Windows and MS-DOS client machines , from a single , integrated systems-manager 's desktop ; it will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 41 | It will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 42 | Sorry about that whingeing on at the end of the last letter . |
| 43 | And in fact it shows a lot for human nature because he was chuckling away at the end of it all and he even gave the lads who did the job a tip . |
| 44 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 45 | Then the drop and the slim , lithe body jerking violently at the end of the rope . |