Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] end " in BNC.

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1 Today , in Court 13 , he saves it for the end of his opening .
2 So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have
3 He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour .
4 If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed .
5 Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake .
6 Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus .
7 Once reconciliation has happened , it is important not to see it as the end of the process .
8 Well we can it off the end of year seven and one for the begi , for next year so they
9 It just poked it off the end .
10 I 'd heard somewhere that you ca n't stop it after the end of the third month .
11 Even so , there was competition for places in it towards the end of her reign , and many of the ageing Chamber officers were trying to bring in their own relatives as their successors .
12 then as I say we 'll discuss it towards the end .
13 Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end .
14 And full credit to the visitors Portsmouth , they pushed more and more men forward as the game progressed and they almost snatched it towards the end .
15 Group 5 felt , for example , that sentence ( i ) , the opening of the original and idealised versions , accomplished this much more effectively — which is why they placed it near the end in their version .
16 Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle …
17 Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle …
18 One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’
19 Put a bundle into a handkerchief and tie it onto the end of the string .
20 ‘ If you do n't shut up at once and sit down I shall remove my belt and let you have it with the end that has the buckle ! ’
21 Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’
22 I 'd seen it along the end of the track .
23 It 's always a shock when summat 's different , but you get used to it in the end .
24 I leave it in the end — there 's summat a bit scary about him .
25 His leg comes to a sort of point , like the end of a pencil or summat and he tells me to shove it in the end of the false leg .
26 ‘ This top takes a while to put on properly but it 's worth it in the end ’ Pepsi , far left
27 ‘ Bills must be a headache , ’ I sympathized , ‘ but worth it in the end . ’
28 But I 'll get it in the end . ’
29 It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end .
30 Sometimes I 'm rather greedy and I do eat more than I should , and then you pay for it in the end .
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