Example sentences of "on [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was on about the end o' the world was nigh . |
| 2 | yes it 'd been about well on for the end of the war she got married . |
| 3 | The question , as one senior American diplomat says , is whether the Somalis are prepared for a UN trusteeship in all but name that may drag on towards the end of this century . |
| 4 | Speed came on towards the end , but did n't have chance to make much of an impact . |
| 5 | Now just having a little look in the paper here today and er well oh the Mary Whitehouse saga continues by the way we are absolutely determined to get her on before the end of the show we 've got ten minutes left . |
| 6 | James volunteered to stay on until the end of the season , and he remains in charge for tonight 's visit to Cross Keys , but Newport are opting for a complete change . |
| 7 | ‘ I told them I was prepared to answer emergencies for no pay and I 'm staying on until the end of my shift . |
| 8 | Davies suffered the injury in the 10th minute of the match against Orrell but stayed on until the end to score the points which virtually ended the Lancashire club 's championship hopes . |
| 9 | Bishop Harris , who has welcomed me so warmly , has expressed his willingness to continue on until the end of the year whilst I complete my own duties in Westminster diocese . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's face it , the Olympics are only once every four years and I want to stay on until the end . ’ |
| 11 | At the moment the band are in California , and the US leg of the tour carries on until the end of November . ’ |
| 12 | At Samia Saouma the chilly irony of Glen Baxter makes way for the recent disconcerting images of Pierre and Gilles , on until the end of the month . |
| 13 | As though to prepare us for that vision , Rubin Spangle has devised a show of early Flavin works from the Sixties which will be on until the end of the month . |
| 14 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 15 | Manager Howard Wilkinson had hoped Hodge could soldier on until the end of the season but there has been no improvement . |
| 16 | The lesson of the Square One Principle is this : the person who has the courage to go back when necessary is the one who goes on in the end . |
| 17 | ‘ Where did you decide on in the end ? |
| 18 | Success or failure , the Grendon inmates always move on in the end ; either back to the prison system , or parole , or release . |
| 19 | The precise foci of Stage II of the research will be settled on toward the end of Stage I in the light of the ideas , analyses and opportunities which will be available at that time . |
| 20 | Besides , in the week of Back To The Future II ( Empire PG ) , with its trailer for the third episode shamelessly tacked on to the end , and dozens of trade names shamelessly glaring through its mise-en-scene , Field Of Dreams seems positively purist in its appeal . |
| 21 | Wise and Newell scored in each half as England demonstrated the simple virtues of producing accurate crosses and getting someone on to the end of them . |
| 22 | Wully Gurk sidled up and squeezed himself on to the end of the seat . |
| 23 | For a start , you need a bricklaying trowel for spreading the mortar bed in which each course of bricks or blocks is laid , for buttering mortar on to the end of each brick before you place it , and for trimming off excess mortar afterwards . |
| 24 | When a tank is in position at the top of the incline , its end faces exactly on to the end of its matching channel , with the two portcullis gates , one on the tank , the other on the channel , exactly opposite to one another . |
| 25 | Negroponte , who is on two year 's leave of absence from MIT decided to stay on to the end of the present academic year . |
| 26 | They just add the period lapsed on to the end of your mortgage term . |
| 27 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 28 | She hung on to the end of her nose , desperately killing the sneeze , but it refused to die . |
| 29 | After another battle with the gate they carried on to the end of the lane and walked on to the road and into the sunlight . |
| 30 | ‘ Thank goodness , it 's almost dark , ’ thought Mildred , tagging on to the end of form three as their form-mistress counted them all . |