Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at the end " in BNC.

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1 Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it .
2 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 .
3 ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . )
4 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 .
5 Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 .
9 It was accordingly wound up at the end of May .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 ’ .
13 In order to stop the printer echo being turned off at the end of the CLI command file , the CLI is suspended with the " .
14 Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed .
15 No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there .
16 Thanks to an over rate of 11.2 and the time lost to the weather being made up at the end , that fourth day became the longest in Test history , not finishing until 7.40 .
17 Spring cabbage can be thinned out at the end of winter to their final spacings .
18 It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end .
19 We get a little Federation Cup , which is on now and again , and just the final from Brighton which is broken off at the end of the second set for snooker .
20 Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 .
21 It does n't have to be slid on at the end of the needlebed .
22 So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days .
23 I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs .
24 As I recall , he had not been initially so preoccupied with the peace treaty when it was drawn up at the end of the Great War , and I think it is fair to say that his interest was prompted not so much by an analysis of the treaty , but by his friendship with Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann .
25 Any gains made are locked in at the end of the quarter .
26 Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 .
27 It is from Zakarpatská Ukrajina , the Czech Ukraine or sub-Carpathian Ruthenia , first annexed by Hungary and later taken by the Soviet Union and never given back at the end of the war in 1945 .
28 Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day .
29 We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it .
30 When the local government map was laid down at the end of the nineteenth century , many of the administrative units — for example , Anglo-Saxon shires and medieval boroughs — were already outdated .
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