Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team from Amnesty International visited Ulster at the end of November 1977 to investigate the Castlereagh activities . |
| 2 | Ray Noorda , chairman of Novell Inc , and Unix System Laboratories Inc chief Roel Pieper visited Japan at the end of last week in an attempt to reassure shareholders and customers of their respective organisations , already , if not soon to become , joint shareholders , that life was proceeding as normal and that the future of Unix as the industry has known it was in good hands . |
| 3 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 4 | ‘ When do you think they 'll let us go home ? ’ asked Williams at the end of the questioning . |
| 5 | Palace faced re-election at the end of our worst-ever season with a dismal playing record , and with as many players appearing in the side as there were goals scored — 33 in each case ! |
| 6 | Mrs Chandler regained consciousness at the end of September a month after the attack but was never able to recall the attack . |
| 7 | In 1763 France as a nation needed moral support , since she faced humiliation at the end of the Seven Years ’ War . |
| 8 | Consolation came when Ernie Coleman finally joined Arsenal at the end of the season , for a fee of £6,000 . |
| 9 | Hoddle says I shook hands at the end and I 'll see you on New Year 's Day . |
| 10 | Mary Devlin joined Lyles at the end of October as Production Planning Assistant . |
| 11 | Now I was given a small , whitewashed room at the end of the long wooden balcony that ran the entire length of the house , above a courtyard shaded by long pergolas of vines . |
| 12 | SLP and Redpath submitted tenders at the end of 1991 and are likely to hear the outcome before the end of the month . |
| 13 | They said the massacre occurred on Sunday in the village of Sikdarpara , near Muangdaw , as the Rohingyas offered prayers at the end of the holy month of Ramadan . |
| 14 | Jed saw Carol at the end of the corridor and began to walk towards her . |
| 15 | They took his men , restored them to health , and brought them safely to Pasaje , where they were nearly taken by the Spanish , but eventually they reached England at the end of 1583 to find that Edward Hayes [ q.v. ] , whose Golden Hind was the only vessel to survive , accused Clerke of having cast away the Delight . |
| 16 | Joni 's first meetings with Berenson took place at the end of the last century and continued , with varying intensity , for several decades . |
| 17 | By far the most important episode of mass extinction took place at the end of the Permian period ( Sepkoski et al . , |
| 18 | The first bombing was at Bianconese , very near Fontevivo , and it took place at the end of September 1943 . |
| 19 | When the great wave of railway-building took place at the end of the nineteenth century , the old industrial commodities of iron , coal , and cotton were still important , but they were now joined by many others . |
| 20 | It is appropriate at this point to digress for a moment on the subject of the faunistic changes that took place at the end of the Palaeozoic . |
| 21 | She has also been involved with the organisation of a few other projects including a National Sleep Out , which aimed to increase public awareness of Aberdeen 's homeless people and Dial-a-Santa which took place at the end of last year . |
| 22 | The return visit by Angus College students took place at the end of February . |
| 23 | Voting took place at the end of August in a national referendum to approve the change from single-party rule to a constitution allowing for the introduction of a multiparty system [ see p. 38380 ] . |
| 24 | LORD ALDINGTON told the High Court yesterday he was not surprised that tens of thousands of Yugoslavs , many of whom had fought on the German side , feared repatriation at the end of the war . |
| 25 | Council house rent arrears totalled £430M at the end of March 1991 , Housing Minister Sir George Young has said . |
| 26 | Both deliveries reached Iran at the end of October when North was in Cyprus with large sums of cash , at the same time as the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy Terry Waite was on the island . |
| 27 | one half of the students commenced employment at the end of their courses ; a further 8 per cent had received a job offer and would be starting work shortly ; |
| 28 | In deference to ageing stalwarts , the Communist Party 's new leader , Jiang Zemin , recently made a pilgrimage to Yenan , the remote village where the Red Army took refuge at the end of the Long March . |
| 29 | President Allende took office at the end of a period of economic recession . |
| 30 | Mrs Celia jay of Blaxhall gave me an account of how she went crow-keeping at the end of last century : |