Example sentences of "end i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 2 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've tried and tried to put on weight but in the end I thought bugger it . |
| 4 | It took a long time , it was tedious and tiring , but in the end I thought the repair looked almost unnoticeable . |
| 5 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |
| 6 | But in the end I agreed . |
| 7 | If at the year 's end I saw her face somewhere . |
| 8 | In the end I saw that there was no way he would accept this treatment , and that it was doing both of us more harm than good . |
| 9 | I tried to chase it , but it was no good in the dark , and I went clear into a bog , and in the end I saw your light , so I picked up what was left and came along . |
| 10 | But in the end I saw that Frejji was right — that Mala and I could probably stay unrecognized in the midst of a typical Uulaan carnival . |
| 11 | I felt guilty — after all , they had trained me — but in the end I saw so many of my friends making the move , I saw them working in better conditions , earning so much more for fewer hours , ’ she grimaced , ‘ in the end I decided I 'd be crazy not to join them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I read too many thrillers but in the end I 'd convinced myself you 'd got too tough and killed somebody and George was mixed up in that ! ’ |
| 13 | I goes I went to the end I goes look I 'll tell you all together get it over with I lost my balance and I dropped it . |
| 14 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 15 | I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it . |
| 16 | They were for the entertainment of the workers in their lunch break er , it was n't really much of a job but er , I kept applying to go onto the floor to actually work on the aircraft but they , they would n't sort of er , I was needed too much in the receiving departments so in the end I left . |
| 17 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 18 | Sometimes for nights on end I had no sleep . |
| 19 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
| 20 | By the end I had a great admiration for Emil , Oliver and Cathy , who had neatly served and cleared three full courses with the floor swaying beneath their feet and who normally would have taken my few jobs also in their stride . |
| 21 | Like Dönitz , he did n't know when to stop , and in the end I had to prod the interpreter to bring him to a close . |
| 22 | Jim said : ‘ In the end I had to accept his £4,500 offer and write the rest off — otherwise I would not have been able to pay my men 's wages that week . |
| 23 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 24 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 25 | In the end I had to admit he was right and I 'm still extending and using the ideas where they apply to my present job . |
| 26 | In the end I had to let Benjy go because I could n't afford the dog food . |
| 27 | It refused to go away , so that in the end I had to accept it . |
| 28 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 29 | In the end I had to have a go ! |
| 30 | ‘ And in the end I had to say you could . |