Example sentences of "was [adv] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was right at the end , ’ admits Marjorie Gedge . |
| 2 | It was right at the end of the main hunting season , and we had already watched as a group of males had twice unsuccessfully hunted the same group of colobus monkeys that day . |
| 3 | Our carriage was at the front of the train so that when she got out she was right at the end of the platform beyond the canopy with its wooden fretwork coping , in the middle of fields . |
| 4 | Chelsea 's only goal was right at the end . |
| 5 | She was right at the end when , without warning , she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure . |
| 6 | The truth was somewhere at the end of the line and the first facts were a kind of starting point . |
| 7 | ‘ There was a bar in town , it was down at the end of the main street , right where the buildings ended and the scrub began . |
| 8 | Nicol had betaken himself to his due place among the servants , and Tutilo , silent and self-effacing among such distinguished company , was down at the end among the clerks and chaplains , and wary of opening his mouth even there . |
| 9 | We did n't know where it was and it was only at the end of the exhibition , when everything was being dismantled , that we found the piece hidden away and realised what had happened . |
| 10 | The EEC was attempting to do within its transition stage of fifteen years what Benelux did in three : and yet it was only at the end of its transitional period that Benelux had had to face up to serious difficulties in seeking to achieve its ambitions . |
| 11 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 12 | ‘ I imagine , ’ Mr Renfrew said unexpectedly , ‘ that it was only at the end she felt the need . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It was just at the end of the First World War when I went into the seminary . |
| 14 | You know the end , and I know the end , now we know what happened , now we know what I should have done … but I was not at the end of the movie , I was in the middle of the movie and I did n't know the ending . ’ |
| 15 | An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term . |
| 16 | Its mortality was still at the end of the period about double that of the countries with the best ( that is , lowest ) mortality rates . |
| 17 | The old stock had given ‘ sterling service ’ over the years but was now at the end of its useful life and becoming notorious for rattling windows and engine noise . |
| 18 | The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture . |
| 19 | It was almost at the end of surgery and it was almost as if the doctor were expecting me ; and later , I could hardly wait to tell Leo what had happened . |
| 20 | He was there at the end , opening the double doors for us . |
| 21 | he was in at the beginning and he was er he was there at the end , sort of thing . |
| 22 | By then Diana was truly at the end of her tether . |