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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Blood had congealed thickly on the end of the smashed fibula . |
| 7 | The commission hoped to have the main services — banking , investment and insurance — all liberalised together at the end of 1992 . |
| 8 | Like everybody else , Sequent is waiting on Pentium deliveries from Intel , now not expected much before the end of the year . |
| 9 | Like everybody else , Sequent is waiting on Pentium deliveries from Intel , now not expected much before the end of the year . |
| 10 | With that in mind , a public statement 's expected soon after the end of their meeting tonight . |
| 11 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Carrick 's 1000 Yorkshire wickets were expected to be supplemented well before the end of the summer by 10,000 Yorkshire runs , a double achieved only by five other men in the county 's history : Haigh , Hirst , Illingworth , Wainwright and the incomparable Wilfred Rhodes ( 3597 wickets , 31,098 runs ) . |
| 14 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 15 | At the end of the third quarter , provider units remained on course to achieve a financial balance this year , as we had reported earlier at the end of the second quarter . |
| 16 | ‘ I know that because his cigar had burned down and the ash had dropped twice off the end of it . ’ |
| 17 | Right at the outset , perhaps we can read a verse from one Timo , er two Timothy , chapter one and verse twelve and Paul says there , he 's come almost to the end of his life , he 's , he will shortly be , taken out and will be executed and he says , for this reason I also suffer these things . |
| 18 | Master-in-charge , Austin Jessop , was quick to stress the excellence of the Newington side and to suggest that they would almost certainly have won either at the end of the tour or into a domestic season . |
| 19 | Balances of both depreciation reserve and asset accounts are carried forward to the end of the useful life of the asset . |
| 20 | Balances of both depreciation reserve and asset accounts are carried forward to the end of the useful life of the asset . |
| 21 | The artwork and mission tallies had been stripped away by the end of September . |
| 22 | Normally , this stipulation is tucked away towards the end of the contract . |
| 23 | In ‘ La Parure ’ and ‘ The Beast in the Jungle ’ the knowledge which , if the characters had possessed it would have changed their whole lives , is revealed right at the end . |
| 24 | The time taken for them to enter the dark box is noted , and if they have not done so by the end of a fixed time , say one minute , the experiment is terminated . |
| 25 | ‘ I think she had done enough at the end and it was beginning to hurt , ’ Elsworth said . |
| 26 | BETTER nursing levels should be provided at the showpiece St John 's Hospital at Livingston , it was said yesterday at the end of a fatal accident inquiry . |
| 27 | Enzyme determinations were done immediately after the end of the experiments . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , this is an observation made briefly at the end of his paper , and not expanded upon . |
| 29 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 30 | Erm , first sung apparently as the end of the last century , about eighteen ninety-four , erm , and they had at least three other Anthems in their time , including , at one stage , using the two , a pair , God Save the King , God Save the Queen . |