Example sentences of "reach the end " in BNC.

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1 Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly .
2 Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly .
3 By the time you reach the end you have forgotten in what age you began it !
4 Once Calder Hall and Chapel Cross , the military reactors , reach the end of their operational life it is conceivable that the military could produce weapons grade plutonium from the civil nuclear programme in one or more ways .
5 By the time they reach the end of the pool they are too exhausted to climb out .
6 They reach the end of the pool without difficulty but very slowly for they must march in step with their weaker and shorter fellows .
7 However , as we reach the end of the 20th century man 's ability to reconstruct his own body by using machine-like structures , in order to enhance performance , is rather limited .
8 From the start , go down the ladder , grab the crate and kill the green blob , jump down the hole into the water , swim over to the ladder and get out , avoiding the workman in the process , continue right , kill the blob and move into the ladder , climb up and collect the records ( avoiding the broken ones ) , dive down the hole , swim right to the open/close door then go up the ladder , pick up the crate and jump out the open gap onto the railway line and lob the crate at the workman , move left over the trains ( killing the blobs with spare crates if you wish ) until you reach the end .
9 If , of course , you reach the end of a marvellously sweet decade , it feels all the more threatening to leap pretty well blindfold into the uncertain next .
10 ‘ About 14 million vehicles in western Europe reach the end of their useful life every year , ’ BMW 's worldwide recycling boss , Dr Horst-Henning Wolf , said at the factory 's launch yesterday .
11 This way , you will begin the pan smoothly and avoid running out of body-swing before you reach the end .
12 Begin this pan with a few seconds of static shot ( remembering to allow for the backspace time ) and continue the shot for a few more seconds when you reach the end of the pan .
13 If you reach the end of an assembly and then wish to change your mind about one of the edits , you will have to repeat , not only that edit , but all the others from that point onwards .
14 Perhaps the most difficult skill for amateur performers to acquire , though , is the art of speaking to microphone at a constant voice level : most tend to start off strongly as they launch into their speeches , but gradually tail off as they reach the end .
15 Electricity consumers are paying a levy which goes to Nuclear Electric to help pay for the cost of removal and disposal of radioactive plant when existing nuclear power stations reach the end of their operating lives .
16 This way , if I reach the end of the cone without noticing , the cone lifts off the floor and , as it can not possible pass through the tension assembly , I get plenty of warning without having the weights landing on my feet ( ouch ! ) and my knitting on the floor !
17 By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) .
18 As your readers read they may be delighted with what you are doing , but when they reach the end of the book they will be less pleased with the whole rather than they might have been .
19 But if you have a slow , sad delivery , try to talk faster , and reach a climax at the end of one or two sentences , at least as you reach the end of the speech .
20 Stay at the cart tail , and when we reach the end of the next tunnel , turn right .
21 There they are , not a stitch on them , they say what they mean , do what they want , eat when they 're hungry , make love as if it 's the most natural thing in the world * , and lie down to die when they reach the end of their lives .
22 When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same .
23 Today , we reach the end of the series ; I hope that you have found that the series has improved your prayer life , as we have looked at the whole subject from several different angles .
24 As we reach the end of 1993 , and before we start on the challenges which the new year will bring , I want to express my thanks and appreciation to you , as members of our Company for your contribution to our business over the last year .
25 Move your hand slowly and smoothly along the required line and stop squeezing a little before you reach the end of the line ( because the flow continues after the pressure ceases ) .
26 When I reach the end of Jamie 's street I pause at the corner .
27 IN those circumstances , the nuclear element could remain between 20 and 25 per cent — based on a programme of replacing the older Magnox stations as they reach the end of their useful life — while the balance would be taken up by renewable energy .
28 Yeah , if you think you might come to the end of a conversation before you reach the end of the tape , they 've rather you put a new tape in .
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