Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] the end " in BNC.

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1 For Ashcroft Noble had never forbidden his study to children , and Helen later recalled seeing Edward at the end of a visit still standing by a bookcase and reluctant to leave .
2 In fact towards the end of the book looking at the overall picture it seems that everyone else 's life ends happily in marriage apart from Pip 's , and him meeting Estella in the end completes this sort of feeling of his life not being complete.fulfilled .
3 There are a number of points of view the executive want to put and I 'll be calling Paul at the end of that debate .
4 A pleasant week in the Bristol Channel when we reached Bristol once more , then on to the Scillies in a nasty little summer gale , finally reaching Southampton at the end of June .
5 When congratulating Paskevich on the end of the war with the Turks in 1829 , Nicholas told him that his next task was to be " the permanent pacification of the mountain peoples or the extermination of the recalcitrant " .
6 He explained that Louis Johnson and General Bradley were visiting Japan near the end of May and should return to Washington by 12 June .
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