Example sentences of "end [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With the approach of autumn , ’ intoned Uncle Philip ; ‘ the wood nymph feels its end drawing nigh . ’ |
| 2 | A noose was tied round his ankles and the free end led up over his back . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |
| 4 | Second , what appear ex post to the legislators , or electors , to be ‘ mistakes ’ are often associated with taking large risks ; that is , it is usually difficult , if not impossible , to distinguish a ‘ good ’ decision , which in the end turns out to be a failure , from a bad decision . |
| 5 | With the wounded end hanging out . |
| 6 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 7 | The top end finishes up with the three-over-two layout of Gotoh black chrome machines . |
| 8 | I do n't know how the end starts off and we have n't singed it properly , one , two , three , four , five , six , we have six , six |
| 9 | end up fiddling with for hours on end to work out . |
| 10 | ‘ You must think I 'm an inconsiderate devil if you 're expecting to be thrown in at the deep end to struggle as best you can . ’ |
| 11 | Although there are notable mountain peaks within sight of every arm of the lake , the western end the Luzern end has more gentle , more settled and more " tamed " scenery than the more awe-inspiring scenic grandeur that surrounds the Urner branch in the south-east . |
| 12 | Archaeologists date it to 3,700 years BC and while its excavated eastern end is open to the public , its western end has always remained closed . |
| 13 | Its flat-coiled shell was not completely filled with flesh as is that of a snail , but had a hinder end walled off to form a gas chamber . |
| 14 | The end came soon after the 62-year old patient 's kidneys began to shut down and the amount of blood pumped by his artificial heart dropped . |
| 15 | The end came even earlier than planned and in May 1968 the OCU ceased flying from Bassingbourn saying farewell to this historic station on the 19th and flying to their new home at Cottesmore . |
| 16 | The end came rather suddenly , so I could n't have got back in time to see her , but I flew over as soon as I was free , to see what had to be done . |
| 17 | The end came off when your mother was playing a round with me . |
| 18 | Its end came only at the end of the century as a result of the Elementary Education ( Blind and Deaf Children ) Act which became law in 1903 . |
| 19 | And er the gate end came in , that 's where the gate men And er we were trapped in there , there were three of us , and we could n't get out , and we were there ooh about twelve hours before they managed to get us out . |
| 20 | The sample list of libraries at the end shows how serious the phenomenon is and forestalls criticism of the kind I have already heard : ‘ The situation is wildly exaggerated . |
| 21 | At the same time , having in the end faced down the rebels and preserved the loyalty of the army , he had the opportunity to push ahead with his policy . |
| 22 | In all cases although the reason for the activity is clear cut the means of achieving the desired end vary widely in terms of the path taken and the time required . |
| 23 | I have not , as a matter of fact , though I must say it rather amused me to remember that exasperating housemaid — who in the end turned out to be one of our must devoted . |
| 24 | The heavy , overripe Season 's End soars plaintively off into the distance , and Holloway Girl has a sort of oceans-and-mountains quality you wo n't find in , say , the music of Debbie Gibson . |
| 25 | There 's an igneous intrusion there , with fragments of garnet peridotite — that 's a rock from below the earth 's crust — and I 'd like to spend a bit of time there , though the rocks at the north-west end look pretty difficult to get at . |
| 26 | On balance , the nature of the biographies , particularly those of Ata'i , is such as positively to invite computerized prosopography which , though in a limited sense of great benefit , may tend in the end to obscure as much as it reveals . |
| 27 | The top end cuts through while the bass is not so fat as to mask the octave strings , but retains enough warmth to sound smooth and chunky on power chords . |
| 28 | It is about the most fundamental human freedoms , of speech and thought and belief : these are the things that in the end matter most , as Salman Rushdie himself knows , and stresses . |
| 29 | ( According to the so-called " linking rule " , a spell of employment lasting less than this time is considered an interruption to a single spell of unemployment , whilst a spell of employment lasting longer than this but then coming to an end opens up a new spell of unemployment . ) |
| 30 | McEnroe was a tortured soul throughout , never once smiling , and at the end stalking off without shaking the umpire 's hand . |