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the finishing post

In many ways the post really is like a living room.

She could not put off going to the post office any longer.

Have you ever been to the post office with him?

Now and then he used the post office pay phone.

He lives with his son, who works for the post office.

She moved the post office next door into her home.

But no one said anything until she got to the post office.

Of course I was always up hours before the post came.

He just started working at the post office a few weeks ago.

At 45, she is the first woman to hold the post.

And so I thought of just one thing the post, my friend.

He turned to the phone and called the post office.

Probably she had been on her way to the post office.

He left the post at the end of the 2009-10 season.

She was the second of three women to hold the post.

They would hold the post until the end of the war.

What I got from the post, was to pay attention.

But who would you like to see in the post?

He held the post until his own death in 1673.

He seems to have held the post until early 515.

He held the post for about two and a half years.

He was just 27, and would hold the post until his death.

By 1911 only 18 men were left to man the post.

The post office has seen only one significant change since then.

The building was across the street from the post office.

Ms. Friedman said her goal was simply to "get to the finishing post."

He passed the finishing post with a time of 20.10 s, gaining a bronze medal in the process.

Samantha clicked the watch, as he ended up on the bar counter, the finishing post.

With the finishing post in sight, all Swindon have to do is keep going and there are no signs of them letting up.

Only the first four horses to pass the finishing post were recorded as official finishers to the race.

The field then took another circuit of the course, this time bypassing the final two obstacles towards the finishing post.

This was the highest number of finishers since 2005 when twenty-one horses passed the finishing post.

The drivers must have a goal to aim for; they must know where the finishing post lies.

By the time we squeeze through the finishing posts at the top of the hill I note that my passenger has fallen silent.

The fact that some groups, so close to the finishing post, have been intransigent and in no hurry for reform, also leaves one feeling bitter.

"However, it is important to remember that while a degree classification can be a starting line for recruitment, it's rarely the finishing post.

The overriding tendency is to lean towards the percussive aspect, and in one or two cases see who can get past the finishing post first.

Originally, the word applied only to the piece of cloth that was placed at the finishing post and awarded to the winner of the race.

The finishing post is just downstream of Chiswick Bridge.

It then accelerated out of the pack and passed the finishing post placing full weight on the fractured leg in a perfect gallop gait.

The racing was close and exciting and approaching the finishing post both boats were almost bow to bow.

The Powder Puff Derby, finishing sixth past the finishing post.

In 1982, the finishing post was moved from Constitution Hill to Westminster Bridge due to construction works.

At the finishing post, Corbiere pipped Greasepaint to victory by three-quarters-of-a-length.

"In past years, the pro-Tory tabloids didn't have to exert themselves so much, because the polls showed the Conservatives cantering toward the finishing post," he said.

A crew which neither bumps the crew ahead nor is bumped by the crew behind before crossing the finishing post is said to have rowed over.

We sneak between huge, new grandstands to reach Aintree's hallowed tarmac strip, adjacent to the finishing post for the Grand National.

Hear The Echo and Butlers Cabin both collapsed, the former on the run-in and the latter shortly after passing the finishing post.

The scene around the finishing posts is like an old engraving of the frozen River Thames, with fires, food stalls and a blade-sharpener's tent on the ice.