Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while , silence prevailed , except for the footsteps of the guide , walking to the end of the gallery and walking back , sighing in her progress , jingling her keys . |
| 2 | Returning to the end of the Masongill fell road , note Little Pot on the way down . |
| 3 | People and places , who 's in the studio and who 's releasing what with whom ( the latter now revised and reverting to the end of this section ) . |
| 4 | The first of four complaints was that the trial judge exerted undue pressure by sending the jury out to consider their verdict at 5.28 p.m. after they had spent the day listening to the end of the prosecuting counsel 's closing address and the whole of the summing up , but their Lordships consider that this was a reasonable course to have taken . |
| 5 | ‘ All that stuff about community meant you could leave the kids with your mum if you had something to do , and you would n't grass on Charlie if the police came looking for him , and you could borrow ten bob to keep you going to the end of the week . |
| 6 | No , it 's it 's going to the end of the interview . |
| 7 | Second , addition of records to the file is no longer a matter of adding to the end of the file . |
| 8 | Consequently , you would use OPENUP for reading serial and random files , adding to the end of serial files or writing to random files . |
| 9 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 10 | Ironically , part of the British problem was due to the success of the OEEC and EPU : under their efforts sterling had become convertible in most circumstances into other countries ' currencies , leading to the end of Britain 's restrictions on sterling which in the past had enabled it to protect its markets in the sterling area . |
| 11 | It is like turning to the end of the story before you begin reading it , to find out if the bad dies got their just deserts , or the good guys won . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's through here , ’ said Rosheen , pointing to the end of the tunnel . |
| 13 | The remaining arrangements of music by Borodin , Chopin , Rimsky , Liszt and Tchaikovsky hardly maintain this level of emotional charge , but if you want to stand any chance of getting to the end of your meal , that 's probably just as well ! |
| 14 | ‘ I was getting to the end of the three years when I was approached by Amalgamated Metal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mind you it 's getting to the end of the run as well is n't it now ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You can pack it up , but you can still see the front so you know how near you 're getting to the end of your job . |
| 19 | And linnets ( ‘ with bouncy flight ’ ) were on the move , flying to the end of the Point . |
| 20 | The birth weight of newborn infants , either male or female , first increases steeply with maternal age up to about age 25 years ( on the average by 300 grammes ) , then slower to about age 35 , when it reaches the zenith and , from this age , begins to decrease , continuing to the end of the childbearing ages . |
| 21 | Also , if the DA is coming to the end of his/her four-year term , seeking the death penalty may improve their chances of re-election . |
| 22 | She was coming to the end of months on the barren atoll of Pity Me when she heard the moth rattle against her window , between tacked-up scarlet and black batik fabric and the glass . |
| 23 | Astrid was married , kids and mortgage , but the summer had rocketed by in a riot of colours and joy , and autumn found Astrid divorced and coming to the end of being in love with Jay . |
| 24 | ‘ Self-determination is the right of all people in the world , including Germans , but it only makes sense when one does not lose sight of the concerns of others … we are coming to the end of a century which has seen the special responsibility of Germans for some terrible things . ’ |
| 25 | I think he was coming to the end of his management with Les Conn at the time . |
| 26 | It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful . |
| 27 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 28 | At the second last fence Crisp was still ten lengths to the good but he was clearly coming to the end of his tether . |
| 29 | Coming to the end of this symphony is one of the hardest tasks in all conducting . |
| 30 | The majority of Tom Troubadour 's opponents are coming to the end of much busier campaigns , and the novice Merry Master may prove the main threat . |