Example sentences of "[verb] to the end of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can force the CLI to look for input by appending an INKEY(0) command to the end of your OSCLI command line . |
| 2 | He was delighted by the somewhat undeserved honour of the Chancellorship of the University , which was bestowed upon him in 1930 , and which he retained to the end of his life . |
| 3 | Alicia uses it only when the family has come to the end of its own resources and then it brings happiness and prosperity to them all . |
| 4 | One of the most famous amplifiers of all time , the Quad 405 has come to the end of its production run with the 100,000th unit . |
| 5 | ‘ The van I used to use to transport my bikes has come to the end of its day , and Bill Doig has very kindly offered me the use of the station van if it is not required for company duties . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We need a company that has come to the end of its natural life . |
| 7 | Long before she had come to the end of her story Charlie was saying , ‘ You 're a wonder , Becky Salmon , a positive wonder . ’ |
| 8 | AS ITV Sport come to the end of their Football League contract , fingers are being crossed that the championship will be decided before ITV run out of matches . |
| 9 | Cast a cold eye on National Savings Bank or ordinary accounts ( 2.5–5% ) , and National Savings Certificates which have come to the end of their five year period and are now paying only the ‘ general extension rate ’ of 5.01% . |
| 10 | There are feelings of anger and resentment at being singled out by the disease , at being unable to achieve the control one fought so hard to obtain , at being forced to accept defeat , at being forced towards recovery by the sheer weight of consequences and sometimes by the final threats of others who have at last truly come to the end of their patience and understanding , at having to give up the " trusted friend " , at having to face up to issues one most wanted to forget and at having to make an inventory , admit one 's wrongs and make amends . |
| 11 | By May the cadets had come to the end of their training . |
| 12 | You 've come to the end of your appointment and then suddenly to just say okay tell me about these people |
| 13 | Eighteen-year-old Chris Bolton , who lived in Folly Hill , had come to the end of his two years training with the Fleet Air Arm at Yeovilton . |
| 14 | He too had come to the end of his small talk . |
| 15 | But the truth is that he was never to publish poetry again : he had come to the end of his creative life . |
| 16 | Kenamun had come to the end of his tirade , and now as his expression relaxed Huy thought he could discern something behind the anger in the man 's eyes : an expression so fleeting that he was not able to identify it , but one which left a disturbing impression on his heart . |
| 17 | If he was n't there , he rather feared Paul Lexington might have come to the end of his understudies . |
| 18 | Kevin Kenny has come to the end of his time and wishes to be relinquished from the ‘ Home & Away ’ project . |
| 19 | Fight back those tears at The Inevitable Parting : ‘ You and me , boy , I reckon we 've come to the end of our road . ’ |
| 20 | Avoid the sort of ending used in this essay on " Genres of the Old English Poetry " : And in this way we have come to the end of our characterisation of the main genres of the oldest vernacular poetry in Western Europe ; poetry which achieved so great variety over the 8th , 9th , and 10th centuries . |
| 21 | The phrase " come to the end of our " suggests a pleasant , shared experience or excursion ; and the expression " oldest vernacular poetry in Western Europe " calls to mind less the language of analysis or scholarship than that of advertising or publicity ( where things are valued because they are the best , the oldest , etc . ) . |
| 22 | Fortunately the machine came to the end of its cycle at this point and she was able to continue in a more normal tone of voice . |
| 23 | The party boat came to the end of its song , and the party people gave themselves a round of applause . |
| 24 | It was as she came to the end of her enthusiastic little speech that she realised she was leaning halfway across his desk , so close that she could almost have counted his lashes and the tiny fine lines around the corners of his mouth . |
| 25 | ‘ Do I understand , ’ said Clarke when she came to the end of her story , ‘ that you had reason to believe your friend might have been the victim of a violent attack ? ’ |
| 26 | How did you feel as you came to the end of your working week yesterday afternoon ? |
| 27 | " And if you 'll undertake her education in addition , " said Andrew as he came to the end of his story , " I would be much obliged . |
| 28 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 29 | This was the most precious moment , as he came to the end of his thrilling song , and his gentle but vibrant voice faded away on a note of infinitely passionate promise … |
| 30 | Thus I found myself standing against my bedroom wall , with a large stone secured to the end of my penis with a length of string . |