Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | And full credit to the visitors Portsmouth , they pushed more and more men forward as the game progressed and they almost snatched it towards the end . |
| 2 | They stopped it in the end did n't they ? |
| 3 | You found it in the end ? |
| 4 | Which he did n't like to eat so Cider ate it in the end . |
| 5 | It just poked it off the end . |
| 6 | and if we paid it before the end of January |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
| 9 | Group 5 felt , for example , that sentence ( i ) , the opening of the original and idealised versions , accomplished this much more effectively — which is why they placed it near the end in their version . |
| 10 | As it happened , Central almost blew it at the end . |
| 11 | It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end . |
| 12 | This was n't so easy , but she managed it in the end . |
| 13 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You saw it at the end of winter , ’ Marc told her , switching off the engine and turning to examine her features . |
| 15 | If London did n't go as you 'd hoped — perhaps you never made it to the end — a float will help you put things into perspective and will leave you feeling more positive . |
| 16 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 17 | I 've got it back two or three times and then I failed it in the end . |
| 18 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | BRM scrapped it at the end of 1967 . |
| 21 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 22 | Captain Slocum did it at the end of the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 23 | So that that just stopped did it in the end . |
| 24 | alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up |
| 25 | I do n't know how they did it in the end , but |
| 26 | And who did it in the end , who 's doing it ? |
| 27 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ You probably said it at the end of the 1960s . ’ |
| 30 | The Collective State Presidency , after several abortive attempts to meet , also finally endorsed it at the end of a 14-hour session on July 12 ( again not attended by Drnovsek ) , but imposed new demands and deadlines . |