Example sentences of "had come [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 2 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 3 | He listened — at first with a curious air of detachment , as if he was an observer from another civilisation , or someone whose own experience had come to an end , someone who was waiting to embark on a journey and looked at the world with vacant eyes , his mind already in transit . |
| 4 | It appeared that the rapid growth associated with the British industrial revolution had come to an end and that the theory of demographic transition , which predicted a phase when death rates and birth rates fell to low levels , was correct . |
| 5 | Edward VII thought it possible that his son might be the last British king , and during the reign of George V , Harold Nicolson reckoned that five emperors , eight kings and eighteen minor dynasties had come to an end . |
| 6 | The association of skins and blacks in a common form of music had come to an end . |
| 7 | Before Coleridge 's lengthening visit had come to an end , the two dissatisfied young men had pursued the logic of their arguments to a startling conclusion . |
| 8 | The Palace had been unable to fill the outside-left berth adequately after George Clarke 's long reign had come to an end , but there was no doubt in any supporter 's minds that a worthy successor had at last been found when Bob Bigg made his Palace debut . |
| 9 | Susan had nursed him tirelessly , and no one had ever heard her complain ; but she would have been more than human if she had not been thankful that her long and exhausting task had come to an end . |
| 10 | Camilla 's days of acting as an unofficial hostess at Highgrove parties , while Diana was in Kensington , had come to an end , she was told . |
| 11 | As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity : |
| 12 | Nine months of intense building activity had come to an end and the boat was now ready for trials . |
| 13 | The war had come to an end , so an election would now be very soon indeed , and Asquith had turned down Lloyd George 's suggestion that he rejoin the government . |
| 14 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 15 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 16 | Moreover , people entering unemployment because a temporary job had come to an end were more likely to leave unemployment via another temporary job . |
| 17 | According to the first , only a very small proportion ( 6 per cent ) of those entering unemployment from employment did so because a temporary job had come to an end ; according to the second rather more ( 16 per cent ) did . |
| 18 | An even clearer result was that , of those who had entered into unemployment because a temporary job had come to an end and who found a new job within 10 months , nearly twice as many ( 44 per cent ) took temporary jobs as did the generality of those finding work ( 25 per cent ) [ see Table 4.6 ] . |
| 19 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 20 | The visitors turned and filed out of the room , realising that the conversation had come to an end . |
| 21 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 22 | By the late 1930s any money he may have received from his father had come to an end . |
| 23 | The famous Durance coterie had come to an end and all that was left was Sabine painting in the hills and another old woman living in a neglected villa in Antibes . ’ |
| 24 | After ten years of duty in Abyssinia my father 's spell there had come to an end . |
| 25 | At Sussex Stationers , where Christmas trading represents over 30% of turnover , there was relief that ‘ this most difficult year ’ had come to an end . |
| 26 | In fact the amount of oceanic crust involved in the rocks Of the Caledonides suggests that a short-lived proto-Atlantic had come to an end and the two continental shelves had met . |
| 27 | Particularly now that Ned O'Mara had turned against her , watching her like a hawk so that her source of pies and tarts and bones for her dog had come to an end . |
| 28 | Their contract had come to an end ( see Chapter 14 , Frustration , below ) and they were in the same position as any other free seamen in Port Philip : ‘ they might stipulate for any amount of remuneration ; and , considering the circumstances , £40 might not have been an exorbitant sum ’ — per Erle J. |
| 29 | Dolly put the practical question to Nahum when the back-slapping and handshaking had come to an end . |
| 30 | James Price 's words eased the immediate worries of the villagers but for many of the older ones the world they had always known had come to an end . |