Example sentences of "the end she " in BNC.

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1 In the end she found a couple of blankets and the alarm clock and curled up regardless .
2 Money cascaded on to Henry Cecil 's filly , including one individual bet of £50,000 to £55,000 , but in the end she was even edged out of second place by Line Of Thunder .
3 In the end she proved , and many women police officers are proving , that it is now the men who are holding on to their apron strings .
4 In the end she saw the giant fish-hooks come down down into her and she thought they would haul her out of the depths , but they did not .
5 In the end she had a divorce because she could n't stand it .
6 But anyway , in the end she was fired and her last act was to send a memo to Tony DeFries , the contents of which I would rather not go into .
7 That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern .
8 With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman .
9 ‘ Perhaps in the end she was not sorry to go . ’
10 In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain .
11 In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed .
12 But in the end she had come to despise it , observing how easily it could co-exist with injustice , harshness and moral inflexibility .
13 And at the end she did Hugo Wolf 's Maus fallen Spruchlein , in which a child sings to a mouse to lure it into her mousetrap .
14 The madam might occasionally slap the girls or call them rude names , but in the end she wants the customers to buy at least one of them .
15 At the end she could see part of the ward , a gleaming parquet floor and white-painted bedsteads .
16 But in the end she pulled back from the brink , conscious of Charles 's silent but reproachful figure hovering on the edge of her vision .
17 Nevertheless , she says , investigation of CND and its leaders increased , and at the end she spent virtually all her time on it .
18 ‘ In the end she thought you were n't coming .
19 We argued , but in the end she said , ‘ If that 's what you really want to do , then do it . ’
20 Up until the end she did everything herself , always walking alone even though she was over ninety years of age .
21 But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle .
22 In the end she ate the remains of yesterday 's mutton pie with small beer to swill it down and an orange to follow that was so juicy rivulets ran down her chin into the worn neck frill of the landlord 's wife 's cast-off blouse .
23 And in the end she found two things .
24 In the end she said the very last thing she intended .
25 ‘ I think in the end she was quite pleased to have the burden taken from her . ’
26 But the one difficulty was finding the right sapphire , and in the end she had to have one specially cut .
27 Towards the end she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care .
28 For the next hour , Matilda kept practising , and in the end she had managed , by the sheer power of her eyes , to lift the whole cigar clear off the table about six inches into the air and hold it there for about a minute .
29 They just started getting mad with her and chucking wooden dice that size at her , trying to hit her , and blackboard rubbers , smashing up the lightbulbs and everything , and in the end she just went in the store-cupboard , crying , so we locked her in . ’
30 In the end she decided that she did not like being a sightseer : the role filled her with an obscure rage .
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