Example sentences of "it [modal v] end [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was entirely fitting that it should end with a sit-in at the Guildhall by a number of homeless families and with a dispute over the allocation of houses . |
| 2 | I wished they would go somewhere and fight a duel to the death , and that it would end in a draw . |
| 3 | ‘ All I can say is that it will end with a question mark over the future . |
| 4 | It will end as it began : it came from a woman ; and it will end in a woman ’ . |
| 5 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |