Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stepping down at the end , he lay on the bed of nails and rolled across it to the foot of the ladder , which he climbed , pausing on each blade to detach a yellow paper prayer flag and send it fluttering to the ground . |
| 2 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 3 | Expatriates returning home at the end of their tour of duty can expect payment of travel expenses to their homes and hotel accommodation if necessary . |
| 4 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 5 | The governing body therefore announced further changes in legislation in 1986 which have meant the phasing out of turbocharging completely at the end of the 1988 season . |
| 6 | He knew the airliner would be turning right at the end of the runway and that he would be turning left . |
| 7 | You know , I mean we 're here , well are you going down at the end of the week or something ? |
| 8 | If you go on holiday for a month , you want another pay cheque going in at the end of the month . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going home at the end of the week and I 'll make arrangements to go to Geneva as soon as possible . |
| 10 | We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out . |
| 11 | Tables listing 60 endowment companies published in the periodical Planned Savings show that the top performers for endowment policies paying out at the end of 1990 could do anything up to twice as well as companies at the bottom of the table . |
| 12 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Any chance of getting in at the end of that scheme ? ’ |
| 14 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 15 | Yeah , they 're moving out at the end of this month . |
| 16 | Carlie was still looking at him , eyeing the casts , his toes sticking out at the end . |
| 17 | This acute retention of urine constitutes one of medicine 's most uncomfortable emergencies , with its habit of coming on at the end of and evening 's drinking ( usually beer ) adding a bloated urgency to the situation . |
| 18 | To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously . |
| 19 | Fortinbras coming in at the end , when Hamlet 's dead and everyone 's dead . |
| 20 | He well the idea seems to be er er coming in at the end does n't it ? |
| 21 | ‘ Our mothers and fathers will be coming over at the end of the summer for the presentation of prizes . ’ |
| 22 | The softer stones of ancient cathedrals show how deeply it may cut ; and the rock from which the Sphinx was carved may have first been roughly shaped by desert winds , for the general outline follows precisely the aerodynamic flow of air over obstacles , swirling away at the end to leave a mass for the head ; and there are many rocks of similar form elsewhere . |
| 23 | Make a hitch with the tarred string around the stake adjacent to the top of the sacking collar , lock knot it between stake and stem , and leave 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) hanging ( you will need this for tying off at the end ) . |
| 24 | My brother is coming up at the end of the week to take them back with him , and he 'll tell them something then . ’ |
| 25 | But there 's an International Business Fair coming up at the end of this month . ’ |
| 26 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 27 | During the discussions , it is clear that the Germans played a decisive role , insisting right at the end of the discussions ( at the penultimate meeting in March 1989 ) on binding rules on national budget deficits . |
| 28 | Jumping down at the end of his journey , the driver admitted : ‘ I still have n't got a phone . |
| 29 | These buildings were invariably well heated and conducive to ‘ nodding off at the end of a long day . |
| 30 | Just a pair of hands , reaching out at the end of her arms from her shoulders to grip a neck . |