Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to be able to take deliveries at all times of the day and it is very difficult to dictate to carriers , especially when they come from the other end of the country , what time they can deliver . |
| 2 | TAKE That 's heart-throb Robbie Williams come to a sticky end as he celebrates his band 's latest hit , A Million Love Songs . |
| 3 | The insects either come to a sticky end ; lured by sugary solution onto a sundew which then slowly digests them , or they get the chop in more dramatic fashion after landing in the jaws of a Venus flytrap . |
| 4 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 5 | So now can you see how politically , there is a kind of political subtext to this section erm as I say you can only follow it so far down a road then you come to a dead end but I think it 's there and you ca n't really ignore it , the political subtext . |
| 6 | All the Pain that Money Can Buy : the Life of Christina Onassis by William Wright ( Gollancz , £5.99 ) — The author 's explanation of why people devour books about the rich is appropriately cynical : ‘ We examine their bounteous lives on the modest condition that they suffer and come to a bad end . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Come to a bad end , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |