Example sentences of "end of may the " in BNC.

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1 At the end of May the first meeting of the London and South East branch of the S.D.R.R.S. was held in the Camden Irish Centre and it is hoped that this branch and its members will make a valuable contribution to the restoration effort .
2 Towards the end of May the leading figures in government , headed by Gloucester , published an oath to respect the queen 's safety if she came out of sanctuary .
3 Since its submission for debate at the end of May the plan , and especially the swingeing price rises it entailed , had aroused fierce opposition among politicians and the public .
4 Popular unrest had begun to develop even before his death — commissions were appointed to investigate insurrections in Kent on 2 February and in Surrey on 11 April , and a London chronicle tells of the arrest and execution , at an unspecified date , of a rebel leader known as Bluebeard. ( 7 ; 22 , p.158 ) By the end of May the Kentishmen were marching on London , in June there was a skirmish with royal forces , and they presented a formal complaint of their grievances .
5 Towards the end of May the leading figures in government , headed by Gloucester , published an oath to respect the queen 's safety if she came out of sanctuary .
6 At the end of May the charity is hoping to send a group of volunteer tradespeople out to renovate one block of the hospital .
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