Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 2 | Right at the outset , perhaps we can read a verse from one Timo , er two Timothy , chapter one and verse twelve and Paul says there , he 's come almost to the end of his life , he 's , he will shortly be , taken out and will be executed and he says , for this reason I also suffer these things . |
| 3 | Its end came only at the end of the century as a result of the Elementary Education ( Blind and Deaf Children ) Act which became law in 1903 . |
| 4 | With the gradual extension of the franchise , and the growing powers of elected assemblies , parties acquired a more permanent organization , on a national scale ; but the next major development came only toward the end of the nineteenth century , with the advent of labour and socialist parties ( first in Germany and Austria ) which aimed to recruit a mass membership , not only as a way of financing election campaigns and other activities , but also as a means of political education and involvement . |
| 5 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 6 | As Magee tugged it free a large lump of bone came away on the end of the knife . |
| 7 | I came home towards the end of March 1944 , in time for Leslie 's twenty-fourth birthday , though we were not able to spend it together . |
| 8 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 9 | Robert Asshe came home at the end of the evening performance , traces of grease-paint still on his face . |
| 10 | To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously . |
| 11 | ‘ If everything goes as well as this , we can look forward to the combat troops coming home before the end of January , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Another thing : You speak of coming here towards the end of April . |
| 13 | Future : Jesus who will come again at the end of time as King of Kings ; as Judge of the living and the dead ; and who will usher his faithful people into the Kingdom of his Father . |
| 14 | The ‘ first night ’ was always a little tense and emotional as we saw hundreds come forward at the end of the service to commit their lives to Christ . |
| 15 | no , it was n't a filter , all it was on the end of a cigarette what you put in your mouth , it was a cork tip , but there was no filter , no filter inside it , the tobacco come right to the end |
| 16 | Erm s so you 've now got the situation in modern times where people probably go out to work all day , come home at the end and do n't even know who the names of the people living next door to them . |
| 17 | The basis of the book is that we are unfulfilled because we 've grown too sophisticated for God , we 're lonely , we 're morally confused , and I think God is the answer for this , it fashions , religion fashions the kind of community in which you 're redeemed from loneliness , it gives you the sense that when you come close to the end of your life you do n't have to panic that you have wasted your life because religion can show you that you have made a difference to the world . |
| 18 | The extract comes right at the end of the Foreword . |
| 19 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
| 20 | ‘ If things are as you say , then a man can never be sure of his wife ; never be sure that he 'll find her there when he comes home at the end of the day . |
| 21 | The most explicit line in the piece , is a line from Owen 's poem , ‘ Strange Meeting ’ which comes almost at the end of the baritone solo in the last section of the War Requiem , the quietly and simply sung , |