Example sentences of "[art] end of [pos pn] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people , however , claimed that at the end of its run the mysterious tram disappeared on to a private spur line leading into the grounds of the presidential palace . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Near the end of its life the houses nearer Century Street was derelict for some time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At the end of their set the roadie applauded wildly , and everyone else wandered back to the bar . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now at the end of his life the Danes send him back to the sea in an unmanned funeral barge laden with treasure . |
| 8 | At the end of his song the young man bowed and raised his hat to the audience . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You 're a lot less stressful , you get to the end of your journey a lot fresher . |
| 11 | This means that if you drop your tackle in off the end of your rod the current tends to carry your float away from your bank . |
| 12 | At the end of your interview the interviewer should have given you a fairly accurate idea of the date by which a decision should be made . |
| 13 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 14 | Rich Americans , of course , whether healthy or ill — or more precisely their wives and daughters — made tracks for the centres of European culture , though by the end of our period the millionaires were already beginning to establish their pattern of summer residence in custom-built Xanadus along the stern coasts of New England . |