Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 2 | The poses come as pauses at the end of each sequence , the dancer then changing position before beginning a new phrase , as if the guitarist were resting his fingers fur a moment . |
| 3 | Well that 's something that a as a teacher we 're erm in my school we 're constantly saying t to the pupils I mean if they ha they have a they have a certain responsibility t to tidy up after them and t to try and keep their work area tidy that 's not the same as er as cleaning at the end of the day as sweeping up all all the dust and and so on . |
| 4 | Work should therefore be rapid and finish in time for the Louvre 's exhibition of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ which is going ahead as scheduled at the end of September . |
| 5 | THE couple who left their daughters , aged just nine and four , Home Alone while they jetted off on holiday were booed and jeered when arrested at the end of their trip . |
| 6 | In all the cases analysed , make has shifted to evoke an antecedent cause , and the to infinitive almost always evokes a state as arising at the end of a process of causation ( or of coming-to-be ) . |
| 7 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 8 | It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 9 | Closure of most of the manufacturing operation will go ahead as planned at the end of the month , when production of mobile phone equipment will transfer to other GPT factories , but a small facility will continue to meet demand for handsets . |
| 10 | When tested at the end of the first year they were found to have developed on average at about half the rate that is usual , though there were indications that at birth they had been potentially normal . |
| 11 | You may like to check yourself when you are relaxing on your back on the floor as suggested at the end of Chapter 12 . |
| 12 | In the first situation , the ideal , as suggested at the end of the previous section , is to produce a valuation of the chance of taking up a strategic option . |
| 13 | However , since it has been obtained by a real transformation followed by an Ehlers transformation , as described at the end of Section 12.2 it is essentially simply a rotation and rescaling of the Szekeres solutions . |
| 14 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |