Example sentences of "reached the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the first stroke I have already reached the end , said Picasso . |
| 2 | Having reached the end it went up on one wing , round through 180 ° in the space of fifty metres , and plummetted out of the sky on to the tarmac . |
| 3 | By the time they had reached the end of Jefferson Street for the first time , the US Grand Prix was all over . |
| 4 | The old Victorian hospital , which has performed miracles on thousands of sick children from all over the world in the intervening years , had reached the end of its life . |
| 5 | But last week the Russians admitted what aircraft experts have long claimed-that at least seven in 10 of its fleet have reached the end of their ‘ useful life ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 7 | The latter specification defines a satisfactory product ; it is only when the product has undergone change to the extent that it no longer complies fully with the check or shelf-life specification that it has reached the end of its shelf-life . |
| 8 | Generally speaking it only pays to change a system when it has reached the end of its economic life — usually 20 years . |
| 9 | In a sense , we have now reached the end of our problem . |
| 10 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 11 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 12 | The blasting showed that they had reached the end of the coal seam and had exposed clay and gravel . |
| 13 | Books have been written on just one aspect of one creature and yet have never reached the end of the story . |
| 14 | When you have reached the end of your questions and/or the time allotted and the candidate has no further questions you must take the initiative to wind up the interview . |
| 15 | When the tone stopped you had reached the end of the line — and that indicated the ferret 's position . |
| 16 | Having reached the end of Day 27 , you have every reason to smile . |
| 17 | It could also indicate that you have reached the end of the road with one enterprise . |
| 18 | And the severity of the recession has made it difficult for those companies that have reached the end of the five-year period to find an exit route for their BES investors . |
| 19 | By the end of the Old Testament the printer had again reached the end of the alphabet and started all over again , this time with Aaa Aaa2 Aaa3 , etc. , till he finally ran out , at the end of the Book of Revelation and the ‘ Table ’ , with the Rrr signatures . |
| 20 | It was clear from the note this couple loved their daughter very much — but it seems they had just reached the end of their tether . ’ |
| 21 | The 1902 bridge over the River Rheidol was passed for service last year but it had reached the end of its working life . |
| 22 | His lecture posed and promoted the question of whether we have reached the end of a road — can we , need we , go faster ? |
| 23 | It is only at times of real crisis , when these individuals have reached the end of their tether , that they will break this code and make themselves known . |
| 24 | In the Joint Commission , which had reached the end of its futile labours , General Shtikov proposed in early October the withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea as a prelude to the various Korean factions agreeing on a provisional government to lead the peninsula to unified independence . |
| 25 | You should also bear in mind that it is only once you have reached the end of the road in trying to obtain satisfaction through the Bank 's own complaints system that the Ombudsman will be able to formally consider your complaint . |
| 26 | They 'd reached the end of the pool and Tim flipped over dramatically under the water . |
| 27 | Embryos enter the uterus and start to cavitate ( form a blastocoel ) at about 94 h post-hCG when they contain approximately 32 cells ( i.e. when most of the cells have reached the end of their fifth cell cycle , Table 1 ) . |
| 28 | Apart from the numerous psycho-sexual problems which afflict humanity , the man may see himself and be regarded by society as having reached a stage of decline ; dissatisfaction with career may culminate in the forties with the realisation that he has reached the end of progress in this respect ; and so on . |
| 29 | They had reached the end of yet another corridor . |
| 30 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |