Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my experience that seldom did the more senior of his element — and there were many of them — fit into the operational set-up , more especially as it got towards the end of the war . |
| 2 | does she agree that there 's something bizarre in er I certainly agree successful experiment it bringing to an end because it 's a successful experiment , er clearly the policy is only to continue with unsuccessful experiments . |
| 3 | And then it bulges at the end , you see , that 'll do cos if you |
| 4 | Yeah , but I mean , I 'm gon na take the heat off it 's pointless it blasting till the end |
| 5 | That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it . |
| 6 | It was ideal and saved people walking up the bank with heavy shopping , also it was handy for the post office ( which by the way , we have n't one on Albert Hill ) as it stopped at the end of Albert Road and was quite near to the post office on North Road and everyone welcomed that . |
| 7 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 8 | The stuff relinquished its grip upon him readily enough , drifting away to join the main mass of the stuff as it clustered around the end of the Bridge , where some kind of subtle activity seemed to be taking place . |
| 9 | Well it finishes at the end of this month . |
| 10 | I think , I I 'm positive it finishes by the end of term . |
| 11 | The starting point of ( 2c ) , these positions , is already known to the reader because it occurs at the end of sentence ( 1 ) . |
| 12 | In preposed theme , the gloss tag occurs at the beginning of the clause , in postposed theme , it occurs at the end of the clause . |
| 13 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 14 | What happens in the Celebration is of Election is that the erm it happens at the end of mass I think or round the end of mass . |
| 15 | Soon as it came to the end of the quarter |
| 16 | Mm and what would happen if it came to the end of the quarter and you had so much money accumulated to pay on your Co book , for stuff that you 'd got over the quarter , and you just could n't pay it ? |
| 17 | So to get this You had to pay this , because when it came to the end of the quarter , you had to get your shopping out of that Cooperative , so that had to be paid . |
| 18 | But er they would maybe lay it by for two or three weeks and then forget for two or three weeks , and then when it came to the end of the quarter they were a whole lot of weeks behind , you know , they could n't pay it then . |
| 19 | When it came to an end , Delaney shook his head . |
| 20 | But it came to an end because of greed , or maybe over-altruism . |
| 21 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |
| 22 | But like all such moments it came to an end , yet not before she had the satisfaction of knowing that she was not the only one affected . |
| 23 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 24 | It came at the end of a month that would send most managers as mad as a March hare , with a defeat at Oldham and points dropped to Villa , Manchester City and Arsenal . |
| 25 | It came at the end of a pretty miserable week for the Seasiders after their failure to reach the first round of the Cup Winners ' Cup in Cyprus . |
| 26 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 27 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |
| 28 | It seemed in the end there was little else to do but actually to raise the matter again with Mr Farraday . |
| 29 | It seemed like the end of an era for licensed dealers . |
| 30 | And it happened towards the end of a lunch or dinner . |