Example sentences of "was at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1964 Healey was at the end of its development , but still loved |
| 2 | It was at the end of the Fifties that the joke became popular about one high-powered executive calling another on his car telephone only to be told : ‘ He 's on the other line ’ . |
| 3 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 4 | She was at the end of her patience . |
| 5 | Accounts differ as to when the unit insignia was first worn , but several of the ‘ Originals ’ maintain that it was at the end of the training period and before the first operation . |
| 6 | Our cottage was at the end of a fisherman 's row , brightly painted , and owned by Mr Jake Nisbet . |
| 7 | The house he lived in was at the end . |
| 8 | I always think of buttercups when I think of this time , for the fever hospital was at the end of a lane with meadows on either side , and these fields were bright with buttercups . |
| 9 | The last heard of Karl was at the end of the war when he had a job as a waiter . |
| 10 | I think I was at the end of the line . |
| 11 | The steel hangar with the faded painted name of Babbidge above one door was at the end . |
| 12 | Secret Service man Lepinsky was at the end of the hall , by a desk against the wall , a raised phone in his hand . |
| 13 | SALES rep Adam Nicholson was at the end of a huge traffic jam on the fog-bound M62 when he glanced in his rear-view mirror . |
| 14 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 15 | Anyone who knew Niki knew , in spite of his denials , that he was at the end of his rope . |
| 16 | He was at the end of the village . |
| 17 | However , after a trip by taxi along the streets , following the line where possible , I did find that the best location , which showed the monoline to advantage , was at the end of the walkway to Pyrmont Bridge , just above the National Maritime Museum . |
| 18 | The failure to set up a working system for filing and recovering information shows how defective the organization of the Secretary 's office still was at the end of the Tudor period . |
| 19 | From our rented cottage on the north Pembrokeshire coast , not many yards from the cliff and the coastal path , we could see them ; their youth hostel destination was at the end of our lane . |
| 20 | This simple building in the Lea Valley at Walthamstow in London was at the end of its life a pumping station belonging to the Metropolitan Water Board . |
| 21 | There is no evidence to show what the position was at the end of the last war but in all probability there has been an improvement over the years . |
| 22 | Before 1952 the only alphabetical index was at the end of the volume . |
| 23 | However , after a trip by taxi along the streets , following the line where possible , I did find that the best location , which showed the monoline to advantage , was at the end of the walkway to Pyrmont Bridge , just above the National Maritime Museum . |
| 24 | That was your annual affair and the er the er the chapel itself was at the end of it used to put up a tiered platform if you can imagine it you know at the end of the little chapel and the erm the younger children was on the bottom and as you got older you graduated to the top and er I do n't know why it was though but er I always had to say the collection piece . |
| 25 | Jotan 's house was at the end of a street which curved to follow the line of the city wall . |
| 26 | Yalikavak until recently was at the end of a dirt track , so it 's genuinely unspoilt with lost of character — something becoming very rare on the South West Turkey coast . |
| 27 | Situated on a high plain , behind Rennes-le-Chateau , La Valdieu was at the end of a very rough track . |
| 28 | Reaction time was faster when the target word occurred at the beginning of a clause , than when it was at the end of a clause . |
| 29 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |
| 30 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |