Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardest thing was to discover what grey it should be painted so in the end we just guessed … not an easy thing to do with black and white photographs ! |
| 2 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 3 | The size of the palazzo , and the intricacy of its design ensured a very long building period , the main staircase being completed only at the end of the century , after Alessi 's death . |
| 4 | Despite the received view that everyone was watching films like The Battleship Potemkin , Lenin 's vision began to be realised only at the end of the 1920's . |
| 5 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 6 | The Thames and Severn , begun in 1783 , was six years later passing thirty-ton barges into the Thames at Inglesham , but even so the river itself remained largely unimproved and in the 1790s manufactured goods from Birmingham for London were still being carried overland from the end of the Oxford Canal . |
| 7 | Blood had congealed thickly on the end of the smashed fibula . |
| 8 | The commission hoped to have the main services — banking , investment and insurance — all liberalised together at the end of 1992 . |
| 9 | Like everybody else , Sequent is waiting on Pentium deliveries from Intel , now not expected much before the end of the year . |
| 10 | Like everybody else , Sequent is waiting on Pentium deliveries from Intel , now not expected much before the end of the year . |
| 11 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 12 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 13 | With that in mind , a public statement 's expected soon after the end of their meeting tonight . |
| 14 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 15 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 16 | The German was dropped just before the end of the third lap and Andy was again in medal territory if he could hold against fatigue and the heat . |
| 17 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 18 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 19 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 20 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 21 | Nor was she unaware of the interest Matt and Silas took in her movements , having caught glances passing between them as they paused to watch her fold the table napkins round the knives and forks which were left in readiness to be picked up from the end of the table . |
| 22 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
| 23 | The scheme is due to be wound up at the end of December 1993 but until then , excepting one or two minor technical amendments affecting mortgage rescues/property management subsidiaries , the rules will remain unchanged . |
| 24 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 25 | It was accordingly wound up at the end of May . |
| 26 | And although followed diligently by Mr Jones along many a fascinating track he seems to have won out in the end and disappeared from view . |
| 27 | It is likely the alterations were carried out towards the end of a relatively prosperous period , before a collapse in trade , between 1810 and 1820 . |
| 28 | Questions are often raised in this respect as to whether disinfection should be carried out at the end of a day , after work or the following morning before work . |
| 29 | In a survey carried out at the end of October of a sample of 100 of The Times top 1000 companies , it found that 61 per cent of companies were experiencing worse bad debt problems . |
| 30 | Flores d'Arcais and Schreuder ( 1983 ) propose that the kind of processing carried out at the end of clauses depends on their degree of ‘ completeness ’ . |