Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST when they thought the good times were coming to an end , Japanese building firms are being given a batch of orders for huge infrastructure projects . |
| 2 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , some saw these victories as signs that the days of the mounted knight as the dominant military arm were coming to an end . |
| 4 | In most other respects , however , joint efforts , such as they were , to keep the peace , let alone to share the responsibilities of government , were coming to an end . |
| 5 | The servants believed there was some blight on Iskandara and her mother — they had gossiped across Alexandra in her nursery when she was supposedly too small to understand — some blight so that only daughters were born to these remarkable women who craved sons , and lone daughters at that , born late , at a time when most women were coming to an end of their childbearing . |
| 6 | It 's all going wrong for Forest just when Frank Clark thought his problems were coming to an end . |
| 7 | Well because I thought that the hits were coming to an end and I did n't want to become an all-round entertainer , I was n't suited to it , I w I did n't have any feeling for all-round entertaining . |
| 8 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 9 | We were coming to the end of the day , and the light was starting to fade . |
| 10 | They were coming to the end of the motorway — which went nowhere , after the fashion of the country , having been built to please a politician it was said — and both of them knew a bar . |
| 11 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |
| 12 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 13 | What was new was the diversity which people were finding by the end of the century : many of the greatest preachers remained ‘ orthodox ’ including Spurgeon and his many protégés or Wesleyans like Dinsdale T. Young and F. Luke Wiseman . |
| 14 | Geoffrey and Anthony were sitting at the end of Penzance Gardens , where it met Princedale Road . |
| 15 | They were grieving for the end of one of life 's great love matches . |