Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to the end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 2 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 3 | Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme . |
| 4 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 5 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 6 | We 're just getting to the end of that now , we 'll be another mark on the er five year list you know between eighty seven and ninety two . |
| 7 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 8 | WITH the ice cracking and groaning underfoot and the wind etching their faces , Robert Swan stood at the North Pole and turned to the woman for whom he had just walked to the end of the earth . |
| 9 | Just to run to the end of his endurance — and then to go on . |
| 10 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |
| 11 | The letter was brief , and couched in the most guarded terms ; it reported a half-yearly profit to the end of December , but also added that there had been some deterioration in the product and requested a fresh consignment , preferably of foreign origin . |
| 12 | The papingo , measuring 8 inches from wingtip to wingtip , is still fixed to the end of a pole extending outwards from the top of the Abbey clock tower , and the archers must shoot vertically at it with one foot on the bottom step of the tower . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean that the world was once so simple , and suddenly it 's full of amazingly interesting things that you 'll never ever get to the end of as long as you live . |
| 14 | ‘ I have nearly come to the end of what I have to say but there is one final complication if I may impose on your patience a little longer . |
| 15 | Sir I I 'm just not sure how you how you want to play this because you may feel I beginning to feel we 're probably getting to the end of this circuit here . |
| 16 | At the second last fence Crisp was still ten lengths to the good but he was clearly coming to the end of his tether . |
| 17 | They both listened to the end of the report , then continued . |
| 18 | INTEGRAL will follow up observations from the Russian GRANAT mission ( which uses the French gamma-ray telescope SIGMA ) launched in 1989 and now coming to the end of its mission , and the US Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , which was launched by the space shuttle in April 1991 . |
| 19 | She was now coming to the end of her second year , and only yesterday had been transferred from Bassett , the male surgical ward . |
| 20 | When she left the desert , and the Sandrat knew she would eventually come to the end of the sand , the face would be waiting for her . |
| 21 | He gave Carrie her suitcase , then marched to the end of the hall , sat down on his own , and took a book out of his pocket . |
| 22 | In bar 3 the G begins a ‘ transposed ’ group of fourths , while the second half of bar 4 returns to the first grouping , which then continues to the end of the example : |
| 23 | The crowds on the platform shrieked at them and banged on the glass , then ran to the end of the carriages to climb on to the roof . |
| 24 | Since the rise in ratio of public spending to National Income peaked in 1982/83 , we have seen that the ratio steadily declined to the end of the 1980s . |
| 25 | I never got to the end of the table . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Well I I 'm I think that er I 'm less worried about dating it cos I think it actually quite important to date it , like the war memorial ground and actually fairly closely although it 's not actually dated to the end of the war , I mean it was nineteen fifty two when it was established . |