Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.

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1 As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things .
2 But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears .
3 As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation .
4 I got to the end of the passage , called — harmlessly enough — Edwards 's Shortcut .
5 When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't .
6 By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces .
7 it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days
8 It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future .
9 I moved in the end from discomfort , from stiffness : made a couple of circling shuffles on my knees , an unthought-out search for a nest to lie in , to die in , maybe .
10 I wandered round the end of the screen and sweetly asked him if he would like some coffee , and then watched the poor man 's jaw drop and his face go turkey red .
11 As I mentioned at the end of Chapter 1 , there is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica , all 30 volumes of it , three or four times over .
12 But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter .
13 I came to the end of the bridge , where technically my territory stops , and stood still for a while , thinking , feeling , listening and looking and smelling .
14 But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data .
15 ‘ Yes , I would like to go , ’ I replied in the end .
16 I joined at the end of July . ’
17 I walked to the end of the pier and looked across at the island .
18 Ten minutes ago I walked to the end of the street and waited .
19 Then I swung on the end of the shaft and righted the wheelbarrow .
20 I heard a terrible pounding in my ears , my heart thudding like a drum , my stomach lurching as I swung on the end of the rope .
21 I landed in the end me , on the railway .
22 For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) .
23 But I knew in the end you would n't let us down — and I was right , was n't I ? ’
24 And there he was , I went to look and I saw at the end there , a big pile of erm earth fresh earth you know .
25 I thought at the end both sides were happy to hear the final whistle .
26 Shaped , yes , nice , yes I thought in the end .
27 I goes I went to the end I goes look I 'll tell you all together get it over with I lost my balance and I dropped it .
28 Erm , I fell off the end .
29 It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour .
30 I was also smart enough to wait three weeks , so it was at her request I departed in the end .
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