Example sentences of "[vb base] come [prep] [art] end " in BNC.

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1 Fight back those tears at The Inevitable Parting : ‘ You and me , boy , I reckon we 've come to the end of our road . ’
2 I think I 've come to the end of what I can do . ’
3 Just at the moment other men are beginning to wonder if they 've come to the end of themselves , and if this is all that life has to offer , you discover a complete new range of abilities in yourself .
4 I 've come to the end of the form .
5 Right , we 've come to the end of the speakers , we now have we now have the .
6 Er we 've come to the end of some of the trials .
7 You 've come to the end of your appointment and then suddenly to just say okay tell me about these people
8 Oh dear , oh we 've come to the end .
9 The fact that you 've come to the end of the the .
10 ‘ We have come to the end of that chapter , they have spent the money , sold off the assets , squeezed the public services , cut the training , tossed everything they possibly can out of the boat , and it is still sinking .
11 Cast a cold eye on National Savings Bank or ordinary accounts ( 2.5–5% ) , and National Savings Certificates which have come to the end of their five year period and are now paying only the ‘ general extension rate ’ of 5.01% .
12 The Canadian writer Mavis Gallant put it like this : ‘ The mystery of what a couple is , exactly , is almost the only true mystery left to us , and when we have come to the end of it there will be no more need for literature — or for love , for that matter . ’
13 I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months .
14 Avoid the sort of ending used in this essay on " Genres of the Old English Poetry " : And in this way we have come to the end of our characterisation of the main genres of the oldest vernacular poetry in Western Europe ; poetry which achieved so great variety over the 8th , 9th , and 10th centuries .
15 Well we have come to the end of Mr 's list .
16 So they started their ministry off together , and I think it 's something quite special to me and to recognise that we have sent three people off on a journey and three people , two here , have come to the end of a journey and just part of the journey and are beginning to discover that will be discovered in the life of the three human beings , human beings
17 The lies , omissions , and distortions which used to characterise historical research and teaching have come to an end and , with every day , honesty about the past is capturing more territory .
18 F contract er and the other E O E S F contracts have come to an end .
19 FORTY years at Sellafield have come to an end for Harry Brocklebank , but he will not be short of news about the site .
20 It mattered to Randolph Ash what a man was , though he could , without undue disturbance , have written that general pantechnicon of a sentence using other terms , phrases and rhythms and have come in the end to the same satisfactory evasive metaphor .
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