Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Milan court held Mr de Benedetti had profited unfairly by receiving a £20m share package in an Ambrosiano subsidiary , as well as the 2 p.c. share value in the bank which he sold at the end of his tenure . |
| 2 | Great therefore was my respect for our swift and silent counter of books and boxes when he announced at the end of his calculations , made just before the sale : ‘ You have about 4,000 more books this year . ’ |
| 3 | Hirst 's recovery from the ankle bone he cracked at the end of August is most encouraging , following the failure of Arsenal 's Ian Wright to click alongside Alan Shearer . |
| 4 | He peered at the end of it , wondering about bloodstains . |
| 5 | He sucked at the end of his pen again , reluctant to push any deeper into the dank treescape of his own memories . |
| 6 | If he lingered at the end of the corridor he could see the class without Percy Makepeace seeing him . |
| 7 | And he applauded at the end of the recital . |
| 8 | An assistant geologist in the Karachi office and the first employee from LASMO Pakistan to attend a full-time degree course in the UK , he graduated at the end of October . |
| 9 | Turning , he saw at the end of the cul-de-sac a police-car . |
| 10 | In his autobiography , ‘ Inward Hunger ’ , ( 1969 ) Williams gives us an insight to how he felt at the end of this speech , ‘ the audience had listened with rapt attention ’ … then … |
| 11 | On giving up as a player , Ken was a natural choice for chairman and , as he did at the end of every subsequent season , promised sweeping changes and League football by 1992 . |
| 12 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 13 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 14 | He sounded at the end of his tether , all the adrenalin summoned up for his phone call now evaporated . |
| 15 | Her hand trembled slightly as she place it on her father 's arm , but when she heard the traditional strains of music announcing her arrival , and saw Silas looking extremely handsome as he waited at the end of the aisle , her nervousness fled . |
| 16 | he said at the end of the day I 've had enough |
| 17 | His pamphlet on modern conservatism ( Conservative Beliefs , 1924 ) called for an end to class warfare and dwelt on the need for reconciliation in the context of a shared reverence for British political tradition , as did , in a less philosophical vein , the book he wrote at the end of the war with his friend George Lloyd ( The Great Opportunity , 1918 ) . |
| 18 | Martin Brundle will return to F1 next year as number one driver with Brabham , the team he left at the end of 1989 to join the Jaguar WSPC team . |
| 19 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 20 | He left at the end of the evening and that was it . |
| 21 | He sat at the end of Jitka 's bed , while she tried to lead her sisters in their song about St Wenceslas . |
| 22 | They did notice that , contrary to his usual custom , he showered at the end of the morning 's gym classes ; but since he put on the same grubby and sweaty old clothes he had come in , that was practically a wasted gesture . |
| 23 | The Syrians performed the task swiftly , and Aoun was forced to take refuge in the French embassy , where he remained at the end of the year . |
| 24 | Sir Frank Cooper was the top civil servant at the ministry , as permanent under secretary of state , from 1976 until he retired at the end of last year . |
| 25 | He had told them that Whitlock would be promoted to Deputy Director when he retired at the end of the year . |
| 26 | Alec Watt began his work with Stoddard in 1948 and forty five years ' later he retired at the end of March . |