Example sentences of "end i " in BNC.

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1 He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand .
2 I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best .
3 In the end I suppose you 'll get everything , which is what you wanted all along really but have n't dared to say it .
4 But there is more to be discovered by thinking their confusions and discriminations to the surface , and to that end I consider one further ‘ explanation ’ of homosexuality along similar lines .
5 In the end I got to the state when it might happen three or four times a day .
6 I du n no what to do with the posters on the wall , and in the end I just leave them there .
7 In the end I decide to get a big cup of coffee and a jam doughnut .
8 ln the end I got to scrape the jam off with my finger .
9 In the end I just walk past him without looking at him .
10 When I get to the end I stop and have a look round .
11 If at the year 's end I saw her face somewhere .
12 In the end I remember I said to him that I was just a spoilt Yank and my father sent me money so he need n't worry about a thing .
13 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 .
14 In the end I stopped sharing his bed altogether .
15 In the end I told them , and they shut up .
16 In the end I was unable to go any further with it because Of an inflamed tendon in one Of my hands .
17 Sometimes for nights on end I had no sleep .
18 ‘ I tried not to breathe , but in the end I just did .
19 So to cut a long story short , in the end I managed to drag myself away from this man .
20 And that created a slight sort of canary-hopping attitude to policy-making which I do n't think was very good and in the end I think Mrs Thatcher felt the same .
21 In the end I was nearly late for appel .
22 In the end I turned to the longbow of England .
23 In the end I came to a good old British compromise .
24 ‘ In the end I asked him not to bet with me anymore because of the size and frequency of his bets . ’
25 When he came home he was distant and vague , and preoccupied , and in the end I accused him of having a mistress . ’
26 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 .
27 Throughout the entire work , the accompaniment only picks up absolutely precisely on three occasions , and by the end I was all set metaphorically to murder the conductor !
28 Races exist across the country throughout the year and to this end I have produced , with assistance from many individuals , a handbook/calendar of rafting events .
29 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 .
30 For someone of my temperament it was the worst possible kind of job , and towards the end I was beginning to feel suicidal .
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