Example sentences of "and then [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 2 | And then towards the end of his life when he was already ill , he had one last hope to cling to . |
| 3 | junior Colts , sorry junior Colts , and he said erm ah had a bit of a roll at the beginning and then towards the end now we 've sort of lost loads in a row so I said , he said alright I said about the same with us then I was , so I said it 's cold and he said mm yes it is rather . |
| 4 | I met the rest of the family , had a fine meal and then at the end Gennaro , who is the head of the whole household , gave me your letter ! |
| 5 | Clint : ‘ It 's probably one of the most sensitive songs about a prostitute that 's ever been written , and then at the end you 've got this tape going ‘ Well ‘ ow about a blow-job then ? |
| 6 | For most of the time this involved consecutive interpreting , i.e. making notes of what the speaker said and then at the end ( of perhaps an hour 's talk ) repeating the speech in the target language . |
| 7 | Clelia had provided help , instantly , by holding the baby , and looking after it , and changing , with increasing expertise , its nappy , and then at the end of the day she had invited Martin and his child home . |
| 8 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 9 | And then at the end of the day not everybody has even friends or neighbours that they 'd want to impose on ? |
| 10 | And then at the end … the little lad was there , they let him , I 'd not have allowed … ’ |
| 11 | And then at the end , that they should be complete failures . |
| 12 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |
| 13 | Once you 've got rid of some of it , why not take another bit , and then at the end of the day let's close the whole damn thing and save everybody a lot of money . |
| 14 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
| 15 | Patients had rectal dialysis at baseline and then at the end of the course of radiotherapy . |
| 16 | As I say I do n't want to promise you something and and then and then at the end you say well hang on we did n't look at that because that 's not within the agenda of of these two days . |
| 17 | And then at the end they give you the headlines again , they summarise it . |
| 18 | I particularly found the Aldershot method important because what it gives you is a clear structure to what you have to say when you stand up if you 're going to introduce by saying what you 're going to say before you expand and then at the end summarise and bring it all back to a nice conclusion . |
| 19 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 20 | And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics . |
| 21 | The position is , looking at appendix one , and if you take the first triangle , which has got nineteen ninety three , ninety four below it , that 's showing that we started off with no clients , and then by the end of the year we expect to have a number of people in our care , receiving services , to which we have a degree of commitment . |
| 22 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 23 | Yeah Emily was trying it on again this morning , I think it 's just that she gets tired cos she feels slothlike in the morning and then by the end of the day she 's over like a rocket |
| 24 | Some dragons banter words with you , more devious and less answerable than the Sphynx herself ; they spin word games which you must not play , and then in the end they come out and fight like men , until you can plunge your spear into the soft white spot where their plated armour is thin . |
| 25 | The sky sort of turns grey and then whitey-blue and then in the end it 's daytime and it 's all sunny . |
| 26 | We 've spent months of shelving and then in the end he just says oh sod it , just took it out for an eight one six then . |
| 27 | And he s and then in the end , do you know how like Steed |