Example sentences of "end of [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place . |
| 2 | He was bound in the sum of £100 and allowed 24 months , from the time of starting , at the end of which all ore lying upon the ground was to be prepared for market , paying duty of one-twelfth part or " Dish " of all the merchantable ore . |
| 3 | By the end of her first term in office the Australian War Cry was reporting that all but one of the forty nine students at the training college had passed their final exam and that twenty eight of the first year students had become Salvationists and eight had applied to be officers . |
| 4 | In fact , he was the man who 'd escorted her to the door to mark the end of her first visit . |
| 5 | Towards the end of her 40-week maternity leave , a childminder who was lined up to look after her baby suddenly pulled out . |
| 6 | For all her tempering in the fires of history , she remained an impassioned idealist to the end of her long life , though with enough self-knowledge and self-irony to be able to record what Milena Jesenska said about the difference between them — ‘ What an incurable girl guide you are . |
| 7 | She was now coming to the end of her second year , and only yesterday had been transferred from Bassett , the male surgical ward . |
| 8 | She had displaced backwards the lower end of her right radius and sustained a few other minor bumps and bruises , but was otherwise intact . |
| 9 | The stove was the delight of her heart and had been built especially by a friend of her late husband 's to fit neatly into the end of her tiny home . |
| 10 | Towards the end of her three-year liaison with the Prince of Wales , Lillie met Prince Louis of Battenberg . |
| 11 | She tossed the end of her red scarf over her shoulder , flung back her head and strode over to him . |
| 12 | As their mother lies dozing , one of them will suddenly pounce on the black tassel at the end of her twitching tail , using the same kind of actions it will need to pounce on a small prey animal in years to come . |
| 13 | Jane fidgeted with the signal pads on her desk , plucked a thread from the sleeve of her jacket then stared blankly at the chewed end of her Admiralty-issue pencil . |
| 14 | Ken would be starring in the play opposite Dame Edith Evans , who was admittedly close to the end of her remarkable career and had n't yet lived down that famous interpretation of hers in the film of The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| 15 | And while she was pleased for Stella to be out of hospital and in more comfortable surroundings , she knew it heralded the beginning of the end of her own sojourn at Wilder 's Wilderness . |
| 16 | At the back of her mind , the matron envisaged gangrene , amputation of the royal limb , a national scandal , a public inquiry and the ignominious end of her own career . |
| 17 | At the end of her eight-week course at the ICO she declared that the experience had been like a very deep well with pure water . |
| 18 | As for the gold ring that sheathed the end of her left fore-finger , a tubular nail that ran smooth and hard all round her finger-tip , Chesarynth was n't sure how she felt about it . |
| 19 | At the time of her death , she was nearing the end of her third year as a student homeopath . |
| 20 | But this does not signify the end of her sexual life . |
| 21 | On 3 September Reims fell to the German forces at the end of their month-long advance ; three days later Épernay too succumbed . |
| 22 | Some of the aquarium-raised Gore Point dog-whelks ( Crothers , 1977 ) reached 30mm by the end of their second year . |
| 23 | Part-time students will pass automatically into Stage II as soon as they meet the requirements , usually at the end of their second year . |
| 24 | By 1982 the dean was proposing introducing a ‘ demonstration project ’ which motivated students could enter ( with no specific academic prerequisites ) at the end of their second college year . |
| 25 | Then they can if they add a two minute spiel on the end of their introductory keynote thing , saying we have somebody here doing linguistics research , if any of your companies can help them . |
| 26 | Selection for grammar schools was based on an intelligence test known as the " Eleven-plus " examination , taken , as the name suggests , when primary schoolchildren reached the age of 11 , i.e. , at the end of their primary education . |
| 27 | The LP is produced by Jessica Corcoran in tandem with the band and coincides with the tail end of their current tour , a sell-out but for a few tickets for their London show at The Kilburn National on April 4 . |
| 28 | The end of their fearful regime left the country with the task of reconstructing the entire Greek economy and bridging the deep rifts that had opened up between the Greek people themselves . |
| 29 | Hovercraft , nearing the end of their long life which began in 1959 with SRN1 , will be replaced by SeaCats . |
| 30 | Cast a cold eye on National Savings Bank or ordinary accounts ( 2.5–5% ) , and National Savings Certificates which have come to the end of their five year period and are now paying only the ‘ general extension rate ’ of 5.01% . |