Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
| 2 | As I mentioned at the end of Chapter 1 , there is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica , all 30 volumes of it , three or four times over . |
| 3 | But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data . |
| 4 | I joined at the end of July . ’ |
| 5 | And there he was , I went to look and I saw at the end there , a big pile of erm earth fresh earth you know . |
| 6 | I thought at the end both sides were happy to hear the final whistle . |
| 7 | ‘ I especially liked the bit where Macaulay Culkin got covered in paint , and I cried at the end when he said he wanted his mummy for Christmas , ’ she said . |
| 8 | All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails . |
| 9 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 10 | The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening . |
| 11 | I explained in my statement in the annual report about the management reorganisation which occurred at the end of nineteen eighty nine . |
| 12 | But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , a second movement which erupted at the end of the 1880s was wholly unexpected . |
| 14 | Bonanza Boy finished a remote eighth in the race and is 10lb worse off with Little Polveir but it is unwise to judge him on that performance which came at the end of a long season after some punishing contests . |
| 15 | In general , both leaders stressed their unanimity on all the main subjects , including the last-minute question of the Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania [ see p. 37361 ] , which came at the end of the summit and which both leaders roundly condemned . |
| 16 | Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró ‘ Joan Miró ’ ( 1 April-1 May ) Assembles the permanent collection of this new Foundation which opened at the end of last year on the property where Miró and his family lived . |
| 17 | Later one of the gringos in the office told me that in the book of depositions , which began at the end of January , they were already ( in the second week of April ) at page 152 , with three entries per double page . |
| 18 | Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century . |
| 19 | It is , in fact , a diversion of resources away from the priorities which existed at the end of 1988 which were to develop the management accounting skills of the NHS : particularly to promote the better use of resources through the RMI . |
| 20 | But the allegations of a popish plot which broke at the end of 1678 embarrassed Dering deeply , dividing him between a strong anti-Catholicism and his loyalty to the monarchy and his patrons in the government . |
| 21 | Although there were links to other organizations , such as through Arnold Leese to the Britons and Nesta Webster to the extremist Die-hards , the organization 's political roots had greater connections to the mainly middle-class pressure groups which evolved at the end of the war to protect property against the alleged socialist menace , the most important of which were the British Empire Union , the Middle Classes Union and the National Citizens Union . |
| 22 | Luke and Sonny headed towards the wide square of open ground which lay at the end of the lane . |
| 23 | The most notable capture was that of Caen which fell at the end of July , and which , according to the chronicler Froissart , was the source of much material gain which was taken down the river Orne to the coast for shipment back to England . |
| 24 | From the roof they had a splendid view , not only of the proceedings below but also over the houses in King Street and Parliament Street , which forked at the end of Whitehall and led into Parliament Square . |
| 25 | The first floor of the Post Office had some rooms over the lane which contained at the end nearest the street , some of Salisbury 's oldest buildings . |
| 26 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |
| 27 | Hardly looking like a suburban station in the densely populated Croydon area of south London is Coombe road which closed at the end of the 1982/3 timetable with the ending of services on the Elmers End–Sanderstead line . |
| 28 | BSkyB will not renew the £13 million three-season deal they had with the Scottish authorities which expired at the end of last season . |
| 29 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 30 | " And you 're sure you have n't got a hankering for this Terry ? " she asked at the end . |