Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | You know , I mean we 're here , well are you going down at the end of the week or something ? |
| 5 | If you go on holiday for a month , you want another pay cheque going in at the end of the month . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Any chance of getting in at the end of that scheme ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yeah , they 're moving out at the end of this month . |
| 12 | Carlie was still looking at him , eyeing the casts , his toes sticking out at the end . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fortinbras coming in at the end , when Hamlet 's dead and everyone 's dead . |
| 15 | He well the idea seems to be er er coming in at the end does n't it ? |
| 16 | ‘ Our mothers and fathers will be coming over at the end of the summer for the presentation of prizes . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | My brother is coming up at the end of the week to take them back with him , and he 'll tell them something then . ’ |
| 19 | But there 's an International Business Fair coming up at the end of this month . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Jumping down at the end of his journey , the driver admitted : ‘ I still have n't got a phone . |
| 22 | These buildings were invariably well heated and conducive to ‘ nodding off at the end of a long day . |
| 23 | Just a pair of hands , reaching out at the end of her arms from her shoulders to grip a neck . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |