Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] end [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Oh , yes , I know about the secret metal box she owned ; her turreted chamber at Blois with its magic mirror which told her the future ; and her employment of that terrible prophet Nostradamus who prophesied the end of the world . |
| 2 | Traffic passed the end of the alley , hut no-one came in . |
| 3 | The vehicle passed the end of the road but it did n't turn toward us . |
| 4 | He would closet himself with a bottle of port and a cigar or pipe , read the end of the previous instalment , and then write the next , drawing his fee when he handed over the text . |
| 5 | Swindon became the end of the line for east bound Inter City trains . |
| 6 | A statement issued by Bailey announced the end of the ‘ informal arrangement under which Tory rode most of the yard 's horses ’ . |
| 7 | He got the ends of the belt around his hands and wound them into a good , tight grip . |
| 8 | He knotted the end of the tie round the other side of the window . |
| 9 | He , too , sought the end of the 20 per cent . |
| 10 | He took off their opener keys and with gloved thumb and a pair of heavy pliers bent the ends with the tin-opening slot to right angles . |
| 11 | As he approached the end of the passage , Mungo could already see that the furthest room was in darkness . |
| 12 | He was subdued now , and his feet dragged as they approached the end of the bridge . |
| 13 | Were an heir under 18 years of age to accede , or the monarch to become mentally or physically incapacitated from acting , or were otherwise not available ‘ for some definite cause ’ , it would fall to a panel of high officers of state to declare a regency , in which event the person next in line would assume power until a further declaration signified the end of the regency . |
| 14 | The letters that signified the end of the message . |
| 15 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |
| 16 | On May 13th Les Aspin , the secretary of defence , proclaimed the end of the star wars era . |
| 17 | Yet the electorally oriented ultra-right 's slide in Germany had far from spelt the end of the ‘ new right ’ that emerged throughout western Europe in the past decade . |
| 18 | But his death and the mystery surrounding it spelt the end for the Church in which he had worshipped for so long . |
| 19 | When the siren signalled the end of the twenty-minute period , Ted had only three waves under his belt . |
| 20 | After a quick exchange of passes Bastin scored and the roar of the crowd had hardly subsided when the whistle signalled the end of the match . |
| 21 | And as the house playback signalled the end of the number , she picked up a pen and some scrap paper and went out to collect orders for interval food and coffee . |
| 22 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 23 | Benjamin , however , cleaned his teeth , cupping his hand occasionally as he studied the end of the toothpick . |
| 24 | A huge window filled the end of the corridor where the tunnel turned to the right , intersecting with the boarding hatch . |
| 25 | It seemed the end of the attempt . |
| 26 | There seemed no end to the knock-on effects — the Magyar attempt to resist Vienna provoked the development of nationalism among Croats , Serbs , Roumanians and more . |
| 27 | Also on Oct. 17 the Supreme Soviet passed a decree which went a long way towards meeting other student demands , and secured an end to the protests . |
| 28 | So when the recent rains filled the gutters and left my back garden awash , I assumed an end to the ban might be at hand . |
| 29 | An air of emergency was reflected in the men busy at the large illuminated translucent plot that dominated the end of the room , at the messengers disappearing through doors and at telephones giving out their muted urgent calls . |
| 30 | Even the Euro-Communists of Marxism Today welcomed the end of the old order . |