Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 3 | ‘ Whilst undertaking a textbook undershoot , the aircraft passed gently through the end of a cornfield , then a rather thick hedge , through the rough end of the strip and then hit this ******* great hare , spun round and turned over . |
| 4 | Birth-rates recovered somewhat by the end of the 1930s ( e.g. to 1.83 in 1939 ) . |
| 5 | • Review Annually The fee will be £10 per quarter , charged only at the end of any quarter during which the CheckOver has been used/ |
| 6 | Nick wandered down to the end of the garden . |
| 7 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 8 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 9 | And , them will survive there , but during er the Winter , starting October , you could see the face of the plantation of that was facing the sea , it all scorched up towards the end of O of er December . |
| 10 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 11 | Yeah , well th that all petered out in the end , did n't it ? |
| 12 | Finally reaching the bottom , she peered theatrically round the end of the banisters , then crept stealthily along the hall towards the kitchen . |
| 13 | The period 1945 — 90 saw the number of morning papers decline , with total sales fluctuating ; gains and losses among the evening titles , with a long term decline in sales ; and more losses than gains among the weeklies , whose market changed sharply towards the end with the arrival of free sheets . |
| 14 | The last residents moved out towards the end of 1940 , leaving Barham House to be taken over by the army . |
| 15 | They reported back at the end of January 1991 and commented that one of the reasons for the massive underspending was the fact that one had to have three companies before one could apply . |
| 16 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 17 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 18 | I parked right on the end of the erm the lane , just |
| 19 | But he 's making a bit of a habit is n't he , Notts County I think it was , very much the same situation ; three two then for a three all draw , he scored right at the end then . |
| 20 | Speed came on towards the end , but did n't have chance to make much of an impact . |
| 21 | Helen came in towards the end , and , with no outside calls for her to go to , Joanna looked rather depressed . |
| 22 | Deciding that his lead was comfortable enough to make a precautionary stop , Senna came in at the end of lap 48 . |
| 23 | In st in standard two though , having passed through there , the Headmaster came in near the end of the second year and said because of the number of scholars er some boys would have to miss standard three because there was too many for the class . |
| 24 | Its end came only at the end of the century as a result of the Elementary Education ( Blind and Deaf Children ) Act which became law in 1903 . |
| 25 | With the gradual extension of the franchise , and the growing powers of elected assemblies , parties acquired a more permanent organization , on a national scale ; but the next major development came only toward the end of the nineteenth century , with the advent of labour and socialist parties ( first in Germany and Austria ) which aimed to recruit a mass membership , not only as a way of financing election campaigns and other activities , but also as a means of political education and involvement . |
| 26 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 27 | As Magee tugged it free a large lump of bone came away on the end of the knife . |
| 28 | A turf fire burned merrily in the end fireplace , and roughly-cut brown chunks of turf ( or peat ) lay in a box nearby . |
| 29 | Ellwood drove past and parked close to the end of the row . |
| 30 | I came home towards the end of March 1944 , in time for Leslie 's twenty-fourth birthday , though we were not able to spend it together . |