Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 2 | erm Arthur used to listen and in the end er , I think Johnny went off , you know , satisfied that somebody had listened to him |
| 3 | toilet , in Bon 's , in Dan 's loo at Bon 's party cos I 'm going round going oh no no no no I 'll give you a fiver for it I went I really do n't want to sell and in the end like I just said to him look just fuck off , you know cos like he was just persistent |
| 4 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 5 | Minton went to apologise and by the end of his visit both he and Lindsay are said to have been very drunk and reconciled . |
| 6 | For the last two lines I usually get everyone to clap and at the end to raise their hands and shout ‘ Oi ’ |
| 7 | Alternatively , if the immortals were not capable of reproduction , their species would inevitably stagnate , be unable to adapt and in the end — through accident or otherwise — die out . |
| 8 | A period when a killer volcano threatens to erupt and in the end does not is a non-event to subsequent generations . |