Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must now return to the general situation in which 5 Corps found itself at the end of 15 May . |
| 2 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 3 | The arsenic is now on its way elsewhere , nor is the shake-up ending there , as dumps all over Europe have by turns found themselves at the end of the latest ‘ lead ’ . |
| 4 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 5 | Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week , |
| 6 | And he shook her at the end of each question . |
| 7 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 8 | Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition . |
| 9 | We went dancing in discos and an Italian boy , Giacomo , kissed me at the end of a dance . |
| 10 | Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book . |
| 11 | Not for the first time this season MrTyson needed a police escort as protesting losers surrounded him at the end . |
| 12 | Once again a very enjoyable evening , erm , I pushed into something that er , I do n't think she really wanted to do initially , but she thoroughly enjoyed it at the end . |
| 13 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
| 14 | After one interview in the relatively early days , my mentor , Ron Evans buttonholed me at the end of the programme . |
| 15 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
| 16 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 17 | Captain Ian Farquhar ( 47 ) , of the Beaufort Hunt , was said to be planning an appeal after North Avon magistrates at Yate , near Bristol , convicted him at the end of a three-day trial yesterday . |
| 18 | As it happened , Central almost blew it at the end . |
| 19 | ‘ You saw it at the end of winter , ’ Marc told her , switching off the engine and turning to examine her features . |
| 20 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 21 | BRM scrapped it at the end of 1967 . |
| 22 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 23 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 24 | My first school expelled me at the end of second year . |
| 25 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 26 | Whatever awaited her at the end of this journey she would face . |
| 27 | Captain Slocum did it at the end of the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll never forget the reception the crowd gave us at the end . ’ |
| 29 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 30 | ‘ You probably said it at the end of the 1960s . ’ |