Example sentences of "end i was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 2 | I received treatment on my injury every day in Edinburgh , so that by the end I was recovering well . |
| 3 | For someone of my temperament it was the worst possible kind of job , and towards the end I was beginning to feel suicidal . |
| 4 | ‘ To tell you the truth , towards the end I was getting bored stiff because there was no help for the elderly . ’ |
| 5 | In the end I was answering press inquiries and organising banquets and fund-raising functions . |
| 6 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 7 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 8 | In the end I was told to go home and to stay there . |
| 9 | In the end I was forced to climb the choirscreen with its curtained box seats , up over the castellated organ loft , like some human fly , and down the other side using the encrustations and statuettes as toeholds . |
| 10 | The negotiations dragged on and in the end I was constrained to issue a writ . |