Example sentences of "come to the end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear ! |
| 2 | Fight back those tears at The Inevitable Parting : ‘ You and me , boy , I reckon we 've come to the end of our road . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We have come to the end of that chapter , they have spent the money , sold off the assets , squeezed the public services , cut the training , tossed everything they possibly can out of the boat , and it is still sinking . |
| 4 | AS ITV Sport come to the end of their Football League contract , fingers are being crossed that the championship will be decided before ITV run out of matches . |
| 5 | I think I 've come to the end of what I can do . ’ |
| 6 | Eighteen-year-old Chris Bolton , who lived in Folly Hill , had come to the end of his two years training with the Fleet Air Arm at Yeovilton . |
| 7 | Alicia uses it only when the family has come to the end of its own resources and then it brings happiness and prosperity to them all . |
| 8 | Cast a cold eye on National Savings Bank or ordinary accounts ( 2.5–5% ) , and National Savings Certificates which have come to the end of their five year period and are now paying only the ‘ general extension rate ’ of 5.01% . |
| 9 | Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk . |
| 10 | It 's come to the end of the tour — everybody and everything 's getting a bid mad . |
| 11 | One of the most famous amplifiers of all time , the Quad 405 has come to the end of its production run with the 100,000th unit . |
| 12 | He too had come to the end of his small talk . |
| 13 | But the truth is that he was never to publish poetry again : he had come to the end of his creative life . |
| 14 | The speaker has come to the end of a sentence and pauses . |
| 15 | Just at the moment other men are beginning to wonder if they 've come to the end of themselves , and if this is all that life has to offer , you discover a complete new range of abilities in yourself . |
| 16 | The Canadian writer Mavis Gallant put it like this : ‘ The mystery of what a couple is , exactly , is almost the only true mystery left to us , and when we have come to the end of it there will be no more need for literature — or for love , for that matter . ’ |
| 17 | There are feelings of anger and resentment at being singled out by the disease , at being unable to achieve the control one fought so hard to obtain , at being forced to accept defeat , at being forced towards recovery by the sheer weight of consequences and sometimes by the final threats of others who have at last truly come to the end of their patience and understanding , at having to give up the " trusted friend " , at having to face up to issues one most wanted to forget and at having to make an inventory , admit one 's wrongs and make amends . |
| 18 | That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it . |
| 19 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 20 | By May the cadets had come to the end of their training . |
| 21 | Kenamun had come to the end of his tirade , and now as his expression relaxed Huy thought he could discern something behind the anger in the man 's eyes : an expression so fleeting that he was not able to identify it , but one which left a disturbing impression on his heart . |
| 22 | Mrs Gray seemed to have come to the end of what she wanted to say . |
| 23 | If he was n't there , he rather feared Paul Lexington might have come to the end of his understudies . |
| 24 | ‘ I have nearly come to the end of what I have to say but there is one final complication if I may impose on your patience a little longer . |
| 25 | ‘ The van I used to use to transport my bikes has come to the end of its day , and Bill Doig has very kindly offered me the use of the station van if it is not required for company duties . ’ |
| 26 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 27 | ‘ We need a company that has come to the end of its natural life . |
| 28 | Kevin Kenny has come to the end of his time and wishes to be relinquished from the ‘ Home & Away ’ project . |
| 29 | Avoid the sort of ending used in this essay on " Genres of the Old English Poetry " : And in this way we have come to the end of our characterisation of the main genres of the oldest vernacular poetry in Western Europe ; poetry which achieved so great variety over the 8th , 9th , and 10th centuries . |
| 30 | The phrase " come to the end of our " suggests a pleasant , shared experience or excursion ; and the expression " oldest vernacular poetry in Western Europe " calls to mind less the language of analysis or scholarship than that of advertising or publicity ( where things are valued because they are the best , the oldest , etc . ) . |