Example sentences of "end [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | H. N. Brailsford , whose 1916 book had done much to popularize the idea of the League , spoke for a generation whose hopes had been shattered by the events of the inter-war years when , at the end of 1939 he confided to his ex-wife : |
| 2 | At the end of 1404 he retired from his position as king 's chief carpenter , but his pensions were paid until 18 October 1411 . |
| 3 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 4 | Then is towards the end of 1989 you have not managed to pay it all back we will give you the option to switch your borrowing to a loan account . |
| 5 | Construction of the Gilmerton Bypass commenced in February 1988 and with work substantially complete by the end of 1989 it is being opened to traffic some eight months ahead of programme and within the target date of 1990 for the entire Bypass . |
| 6 | At the end of 1866 he had asked the Governors for a testimonial , as he was applying for a post in the Midlands : |
| 7 | Some time towards the end of 1943 I was approached by the US Office of War Information to see if I would join their staff as adviser on Burmese subjects and language . |
| 8 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 9 | That left Charles Frederick at home with Mum and Dad — but not for long ; by the end of 1871 he , too , was serving his apprenticeship in Haymarket with a goldsmith . |
| 10 | By the end of 1991 it was apparent that the referendum to determine the future of the Western Sahara , which had been scheduled for Jan. 26 , would have to be postponed for at least nine months . |
| 11 | At the end of 10972 she left Iran abruptly for Europe . |
| 12 | By the end of 1980 we had made 160 collections and , despite problems with the budding technique , nearly 130 of these were safely growing in the nursery . |
| 13 | At the end of 1987 they had failed to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup and then played two drawn series against India and Pakistan , in the latter case coming close to defeat before squeezing a two-wicket victory to square the rubber . |
| 14 | At the end of 1987 I was again in hospital and was then top priority , according to Magdi Yacoub , or MY , or the Prof , depending on whom you talked to . |
| 15 | Towards the end of 1893 he moved to Liverpool as a freelance . |
| 16 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 17 | The Data Protection Registrar , in publicising a closing date of May 1986 for the receipt of registrations , had no idea how many data users ought to be registering ; in the event the flow of registrations was far slower than had been hoped , but by the end of 1986 it was clear that the higher guesses were more likely to be right . |
| 18 | Construction of the Sighthill Bypass commenced in September 1984 and with work substantially complete by the end of 1986 it is being opened to traffic some nine months ahead of programme . |
| 19 | He was formerly Director of Consumer Affairs at the Office of Fair Trading and for nine years until the end of 1986 he was Director of the National Consumer Council . |
| 20 | At the end of 1986 I started an MSc course , specialising in expert systems . |
| 21 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 22 | At the end of 1894 she was elected as guardian for the Vauxhall board of the Lambeth Poor Law Union . |
| 23 | At the forward end of that we came to a glass-panelled door , which needed no key , and suddenly we were in the comparative quietness of the drivers ' cab , right at the front of the train . |
| 24 | By the end of that he 'll have been Blades boss for nearly nine years ! |
| 25 | Erm the tentative benefit you put in at the end of that you said is that okay and Maggie said yes erm the answer could be construed I , I thought in that basis well yes it 's okay so what whereas if you 'd 've said is that of interest to you |
| 26 | I think that by the end of '92 she will be the World No. 2 if not No. 1 . |
| 27 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 28 | By the end of 1887 he had begun to extend his operations to other ports in the north east and claimed to have enrolled about 200 members . |
| 29 | At the end of 1992 it is probably a reasonable generalization that the average 30-second commercial , including the cost of bulk prints , but not of repeat fees ( see page 129 ) , would cost some £65000–£70000 to make . |
| 30 | The damaged vegetation grew back very quickly in the following months , and by the end of 1992 it was difficult to believe that such a wide swathe had originally been bulldozed . |