Example sentences of "had [verb] towards [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoarse but buoyant , Clinton had roared towards the end of a marathon tour of eight states yesterday pleading for every last vote . |
| 2 | The Nonconformists also had reason to feel disappointed , since the relief granted was considerably less than the civil and religious liberty which they had enjoyed towards the end of James 's reign . |
| 3 | John McAllister , his American grandfather , had sold out his interest in his family steel and railway holdings shortly before the Wall Street Crash ; he had died towards the end of the war , a few months after his wife . |
| 4 | Relations had already become seriously strained following the mid-March execution in Baghdad of the United Kingdom-based journalist Farzad Bazoft and had worsened towards the end of the month when the UK and the United States claimed to have foiled an Iraqi plot to import nuclear detonators [ see p. 37322 ] . |
| 5 | But he explained that the SAC had learned towards the end of last year that its own grant was to be increased by only 2 per cent . |