Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick wandered down to the end of the garden . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 6 | Yeah , well th that all petered out in the end , did n't it ? |
| 7 | The last residents moved out towards the end of 1940 , leaving Barham House to be taken over by the army . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Speed came on towards the end , but did n't have chance to make much of an impact . |
| 11 | Helen came in towards the end , and , with no outside calls for her to go to , Joanna looked rather depressed . |
| 12 | Deciding that his lead was comfortable enough to make a precautionary stop , Senna came in at the end of lap 48 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , West Indies dominated these , winning seventeen of the first twenty-two played up to the end of 1985–6 . |
| 15 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 16 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 17 | And so hopefully you came back at the end of the day with quite a bou bag full on your bike , or a box it was , fitted in a carrier , full . |
| 18 | We took that hill at a cracking pace , and as we handed over at the crest , and dropped back to the end of the column , Fr Courtney called out ‘ Well done I ’ to us . |
| 19 | Warm wet plastic came out of the end of the pipe . |
| 20 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 21 | Without thinking I tagged on to the end of the marching men and within a few seconds was past the SPs unnoticed . |
| 22 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 23 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 24 | But it paid off in the end ; here was the pretty little Girl-Human walking over to talk to them , smiling up at them — Inchbad always noticed the fair , smooth skins of humans , whereas giantesses were apt to be a bit coarse and occasionally had incipient beards . |
| 25 | The empire , at least in Africa , was thought likely to outlast the century , not least by socialist ministers ; and it was imagined that the Marshall Plan , paid off by the end of 1950 , might represent only a brief and passing reliance on the economy of the United States . |
| 26 | threw up towards the end of a student party |
| 27 | I thought if I was a little bit fitter , fresher and stronger I would be able to do a better job — which is what turned out in the end . ’ |
| 28 | But see how it turned out in the end . ’ |
| 29 | They had both of them thought that the climate of Panama would be bad for the racquets , although it turned out in the end that he could perfectly well have taken them with him . |
| 30 | However , it turned out in the end that he was basically correct , though in a manner he had certainly not expected . |