Example sentences of "[vb past] at the end of " in BNC.

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1 He peered at the end of it , wondering about bloodstains .
2 The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) reported at the end of September 1989 that seasonal ozone depletion over Antarctica ( believed to be caused primarily by chlorofluorocarbons — CFCs — see p. 36785 ) was increasing at the rate of 1.5 per cent a day ; the depletion largely occurred on a seasonal basis , with the ozone being replenished during summer months .
3 John Paton reported at the end of 1933 : The analysis of the reports shows that the policy of isolated cooperation with the Communist Party has completely failed to bring general support from the other organised bodies .
4 When I finally moved at the end of September , it was an enormous step in my life .
5 She moved at the end of
6 But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class .
7 This system was devised not just with political but with military arrangements in view , and this is another way in which city and countryside were brought together : the demes and trittyes were often arranged along , and clustered at the ends of , the strategic highways of Attica , thereby making for easy mobilization , with the agora of Athens as the place of muster .
8 As I mentioned at the end of Chapter 1 , there is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica , all 30 volumes of it , three or four times over .
9 A final analysis problem that we will consider is that mentioned at the end of Chapter 8 — how to deal with syllabic consonants .
10 We must stop , as we stopped at the end of the story of the binding of Isaac , that other story about God bringing a bearer of his promises to the brink of death , and ask more about what has been going on .
11 They stopped at the end of the harbour wall , and Miguel gently drew Shelley against him , so that they walked back linked together .
12 It was ideal and saved people walking up the bank with heavy shopping , also it was handy for the post office ( which by the way , we have n't one on Albert Hill ) as it stopped at the end of Albert Road and was quite near to the post office on North Road and everyone welcomed that .
13 He sucked at the end of his pen again , reluctant to push any deeper into the dank treescape of his own memories .
14 We must hope it was a harbinger that the one riotously funny scene occurred at the end of the first episode , with Europe through .
15 The next stage in this shifting argument occurred at the end of November 1978 with the appearance of a brief DES statement entitled Agricultural Education in England and Wales : Validating Arrangements .
16 Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence .
17 Quite a surprise regarding this name occurred at the end of the last war .
18 It is understood the incidents occurred at the end of last term .
19 The incident occurred at the end of a week of unusually heavy artillery and small-arms skirmishing between Indian and Pakistani troops across the Kashmir border .
20 I explained in my statement in the annual report about the management reorganisation which occurred at the end of nineteen eighty nine .
21 Hirst 's recovery from the ankle bone he cracked at the end of August is most encouraging , following the failure of Arsenal 's Ian Wright to click alongside Alan Shearer .
22 Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 .
23 Nevertheless , a second movement which erupted at the end of the 1880s was wholly unexpected .
24 You want this added at the end of roman numeral four .
25 The remaining commercial reserves figure is that estimated at the end of the year plus the production during the year .
26 One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads .
27 But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data .
28 An hour or so later Owen was working peacefully in his office when the door slammed at the end of the building and feet came running along the corridor .
29 If he lingered at the end of the corridor he could see the class without Percy Makepeace seeing him .
30 Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room .
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