Example sentences of "had [verb] at [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) . |
| 2 | It was probably that blow on the head he had received at the end of the spring term . |
| 3 | The tank had to go at the end of the little landing . |
| 4 | I found nothing ; it was as if they had vanished at the end of the revolution . |
| 5 | The upward slope of the function reflects the response of firms to an actual value for p which turns out to be greater or less than they had expected at the end of t - 1 . |
| 6 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 7 | The communist CGIL trade union confederation on Sept. 4 reconfirmed as its leader Bruno Trentin who had resigned at the end of July [ see p. 39025 ] . |
| 8 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 9 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 10 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 11 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 12 | The PS had decided at the end of August to preserve a loose electoral accord with the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Ali Muhammad al-Akrami , al-Ajili Muhammad ‘ Abdul Rahman al-Ashari , ‘ Ali Muhammad al-Qajji , Salih Omar al-Qasbi , Muhammad al-Saadiq al-Tarhouni and ‘ Abdul Qadir Muhammad al-Ya'qubi are believed to be in Abu Salim Prison in Tripoli , although AI received reports that ‘ Abdul Qadir Muhammad al-Ya'qubi had died at the end of 1988 . |
| 14 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 15 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |
| 16 | Said that as Mother Demdike had escaped at the end of They Came And Ate Us , there was a loose end . |
| 17 | Two rebel factions , the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) and the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) , had announced at the end of May that they were ceasing hostilities . |
| 18 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 19 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 20 | A drain had overflowed at the end of the road and water was running down the tarmac . |
| 21 | He never said he was teaching , or asked Gabriel what he had learned at the end . |
| 22 | Although the self-imposed deadline for the talks had passed at the end of May without agreement , the federal Minister Responsible for Constitutional Affairs , Joe Clark , expressed optimism that an agreement would soon be forthcoming . |
| 23 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 24 | Pavlov , as Finance Minister , had unveiled at the end of November 1990 a new style " union budget " relating only to the centre 's spending and revenue , and leaving the republics free to set their own budgets after meeting contributions to the centre . |
| 25 | The white Mercedes bus that had waited at the end of the line for the red-shirted storm-troopers left twenty minutes after the attack started . |
| 26 | Funar had ordered at the end of March that Hungarian or dual language signs in Cluj-Napoca be removed . |