Example sentences of "and [prep] the very end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , in spite of his now professed Toryism , he continued to mix his poetry with social criticism and to the very end of his life insisted on making statements which show an intense involvement in the sufferings of the people . |
| 2 | And at the very end of the decade , after this chapter had been written , Provincial announced that such was the cost of retaining ageing DMUs that in 1990 some services would be temporarily reduced until more Sprinters come on stream . |
| 3 | Yet another element was added to the civilization of Palermo ; and at the very end of our period , in the late 1140s , King Roger II , greatest of the Norman rulers of south Italy and Sicily , created the monument which above all others links us to his world , the royal chapel , the Capella Palatina , Norman Romanesque in architecture , Byzantine in its mosaics , Islamic in its strange and fascinating ceiling . |
| 4 | I wo n't go into too much detail — I remember Glenda Jackson talking about a theatre review she 'd read where every single member of the cast was listed — and at the very end it said : ‘ And Miss Yvonne Smith made a very good prompt … . ’ |
| 5 | The pattern of duality is broken , significantly , in two places : at the very beginning , in the poignantly simple opening sentence ; and at the very end , where there is the unexpected addition of a third , and longer member to the parallelism of how clauses : and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea " . |