Example sentences of "[art] end of [pos pn] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This simple building in the Lea Valley at Walthamstow in London was at the end of its life a pumping station belonging to the Metropolitan Water Board . |
| 2 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 3 | But a prodigious memory enabled him to retain to the end of his life a total recall , whether of a text of scripture or a line of the Iliad or a passage in Plato 's Dialogues . |
| 4 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 5 | You 're a lot less stressful , you get to the end of your journey a lot fresher . |