Example sentences of "he [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been trying to see as little as possible of him towards the end of term . |
| 3 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |
| 4 | He made her come with him onto the end of the staging down which Jotan and Arkhina had already disappeared . |
| 5 | Willis got him in the end , his last Test wicket . |
| 6 | You 'll thank him in the end , you mark my words . ’ |
| 7 | He is the chief executive and administrative officer of the local authority , and it is to him in the end that the council must turn to see that the decisions of the council are executed . |
| 8 | I used to tell him off for riding a bike without a light — summonsed him in the end and he was fined about ten bob . |
| 9 | Clarke 's corner caused a goalmouth melée and although the Prince goalkeeper parried a shot , Lee McAlonen 's right-foot drive beat him in the end . |
| 10 | But it got him in the end . |
| 11 | He takes his belt to him — I try to hide him sometimes , but he always finds him in the end . |
| 12 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 13 | Brando refused to act with him in the end and Harris found himself addressing his lines not to Brando but a packing case acting as a stand-in . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell that brother of yours that we 'll catch him in the end so he might as well give himself up . ’ |
| 15 | So what you must do , and it is not easy , is to create a clown-like detective hero who has a core of toughness , of shrewdness even , which will allow him in the end plausibly to come out on top . |
| 16 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 17 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 18 | ‘ So you married him in the end , did you ? ’ |
| 19 | Matthew , as usual , was unwilling to answer a straight question , but I got it out of him in the end . |
| 20 | Incidentally , they 'd lost him — the coach set off without him in the end . ’ |
| 21 | So a new ball Lewis This his third chance Stone has found him in the end . |
| 22 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 23 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 24 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 25 | Some people might ask , if George loved Lennie that much , why did he shoot him in the end . |
| 26 | They all turned against him in the end did n't they ? |
| 27 | I paid him in the end , yeah . |
| 28 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 29 | He looked at Bernard , frowned , then glanced round sharply when he heard someone calling him from the end of the counter . |
| 30 | Emmie watched him from the end of the garden , knee-deep in damp , sweet fern . |