Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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1 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
2 | I 've got it back two or three times and then I failed it in the end . |
3 | I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more . |
4 | I paid him in the end , yeah . |
5 | to get that back , that 's outlining , you know I merged something on the end that I do n't want to , it 's deleting |
6 | So it 's just simply to er comment about the the future work that 's gon na be done by Glanmole er , the work of investigation as I understand it at the end of that first section . |
7 | I watched him round the end of the point , and out of sight , then ran for the causeway . |
8 | I pay it at the end of the previous month so it 's due on the twenty eighth , twenty ninth |
9 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
10 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
11 | I leave it in the end — there 's summat a bit scary about him . |
12 | I have grown one and I twist it at the ends ( the moustache too ) . ’ |
13 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
14 | alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up |
15 | His hair , similarly , has collapsed onto his head so that at first — I see him at the end of a corridor — he appears to be completely bald . |