Example sentences of "just [verb] to [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme . |
| 2 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 3 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 4 | It looked as if the serenity of the evening had just come to an end ! |
| 5 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 6 | We 're just getting to the end of that now , we 'll be another mark on the er five year list you know between eighty seven and ninety two . |
| 7 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 8 | Erm , let's just read to the end , erm , can I pounce on , erm , Matthew will you read to the end . |
| 9 | WITH the ice cracking and groaning underfoot and the wind etching their faces , Robert Swan stood at the North Pole and turned to the woman for whom he had just walked to the end of the earth . |
| 10 | Just to run to the end of his endurance — and then to go on . |
| 11 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |