Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 2 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 3 | Erm I think that brings us to the end of the announcements . |
| 4 | It may not be your decision that brings it to an end , it may be someone else 's or beyond anyone 's power to decide . |
| 5 | In skill training the opposite can apply , the trainee is persuaded to be flexible and to orient himself towards the end rather than the means . |
| 6 | Richard played me their record and invited me to the end of recording party . |
| 7 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |
| 8 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 9 | Then , using a two pronged transfer tool , pick up just the end stitch and put it on the end needle ( 1 ) . |
| 10 | and put it on the end . |
| 11 | Put a bundle into a handkerchief and tie it onto the end of the string . |
| 12 | A worthy father should pass the tests of strength and endurance , and so she rewards the efforts of those who are still fit enough to subdue and defend her at the end of the arduous rut . |
| 13 | Press the nozzle just before you aim it at the surface , and release it at the end of each stroke . |
| 14 | If we had anyone who could put up the money then we 'd buy our own and resell it at the end . ’ |
| 15 | The researchers found that a change of curriculum from traditional academic subjects to topics of local relevance forced a change of roles for teachers and pupils ( the latter becoming knowledge-holders ) and a change of methods and time-tabling which in the end proved non-acceptable , least of all to parents who favoured the traditional approach as a gateway to success , and resisted innovation ( 17 ) . |
| 16 | She pulled her glasses from her pocket and placed them on the end of her nose . |
| 17 | Elspeth is prepared ( her schedule permitting ) to drop guests at the start and collect them at the end of walks . |
| 18 | The plaintiffs sought to enforce the clause but Scott J dismissed the action for he found that on its true construction the employment agreement was a contract of employment of the defendant by the two partners , that the dissolution of that partnership within the term of the employment constituted a breach of the contract of employment and brought it to an end and that accordingly the restraint of trade clause ceased thereafter to be binding upon the defendant . |
| 19 | This facility ‘ for burying an emotion in my heart or brain for forty years , and exhuming it at the end of that time as fresh as when interred ’ , as he described it , lies behind many of his most successful lyrics . |
| 20 | She sat down , spreading her damp hair and squeezing it in the ends of the towel , teasing it out between her fingers . |
| 21 | This bomb came through and whacked this barrel and it took the side of his head away and dragged him to the end of the ship . ’ |
| 22 | If the rules would otherwise indicate that the Steam Tank flees then the commander battens downs the hatch and does nothing until the end of his following turn . |
| 23 | And if he should record the note electronically , would he then bother to save it and retain it until the end of his life ? |
| 24 | He would gladly have died or suffered hardship or privation for the truth ; but endless wrangling and prevarication on both sides made him ill , and distracted him from the ends to which he had dedicated himself . |
| 25 | After this he was a little unlucky with injuries and left us at the end of 1935–36 , having served honourably and well . |
| 26 | Hire purchase — personal customers hire goods for an agreed length of time and buy them at the end of the period for a low price . |
| 27 | Erm if you still do n't understand it , come and see me at the end of the lecture , okay ? |
| 28 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |