Example sentences of "end of it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Salmond added : ‘ We have spent more than two months at Labour 's behest going through a process of consultation with the STUC only to be told at the end of it that Labour want to junk his key proposal before we get to a meeting . ’ |
| 2 | There was no limit to the amount of money which could be used during any given assignment but at the end of it each operative had to account to Kolchinsky for his or her expenses in tabular form , supplying the relevant chits to back up the figurework . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the end of it sure . |
| 4 | Some of them have actually turned round and said keep it up Mr , keep it up Mr , we will see the end of it one day . |
| 5 | Twenty-two athletes spend five days for the most part watching their teammates do all the work , and at the end of it all , everyone is quite happy to settle for a draw . |
| 6 | By the end of it all the mind-body problem will loom large — but this may be because we are now a little closer to it . |
| 7 | And at the end of it all you 'll really know Wales . |
| 8 | Also , at the end of it all you will have to eat like a bird in order to avoid putting back all the fat you lost . |
| 9 | The shrewd little girl from Australia had no intention of following others who had been eaten by the star system and dumped at the end of it all with nothing . |
| 10 | Before the Brownings left Florence she had enquired of Mr Browning how things stood and had been told very ill , but that this must be kept from his wife until she was in the warm south and better able to stand the inevitable end of it all . |
| 11 | To me it seems inconceivable that a single human life on earth is the beginning and end of it all . |
| 12 | At the end of it all I felt a great sense of relief and well-being , and now I always go to Norway for treatment . |
| 13 | At the end of it all little was left for the tradesmen who had resorted to the complicated machinery . |
| 14 | Perhaps they just find it comforting to think that this one earthly life is not the beginning and end of it all . |
| 15 | The training undergone by aspiring teachers in the 19th century was of a fairly rudimentary kind , and the financial rewards at the end of it all were nothing like those accorded to successful lawyers or doctors . |
| 16 | At the end of it all , I am left with an uneasy feeling . |
| 17 | ‘ But at the end of it all we still have our little star . |
| 18 | She got a first class degree at the end of it all , so I ca n't have done so badly ! |
| 19 | At the end of it all , the investigators of each group write up their reports to the investigator-in-charge and he in turn formulates the report on the accident . |
| 20 | At the end of it all , he had simply promised too many people too many things . |
| 21 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 22 | At the end of it all , Virgin had agreed to pay a total of $31m dollars , spread over ten years , for their first aircraft . |
| 23 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 24 | Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all . |
| 25 | That way I might be able to ensure you 'll have a job at the end of it all . ’ |
| 26 | But one of the station 's journalists , Belfast-born Fionnuala Sweeney who presented the night 's occasion to Europe said at the end of it all : ‘ Who knows — we may be seeing you in Ireland next year . ’ |
| 27 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 28 | At the end of it all the small , white house was as bright and clean as a spring morning . |
| 29 | At the end of it all , France had precisely the kind of constitution that he had all along wanted to avoid . |
| 30 | But at the end of it all she left the stage to applause loud enough to rock the rafters , knowing with an angry certainty that she 'd failed . |