Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at the far [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 2 | It was in a field at the far end of the village where I live , just across from the playing field and cricket ground . |
| 3 | For a moment he thought he saw a figure at the far end , waiting , but that was from the nightmare , too , just a trick of the light and the fog . |
| 4 | Just as we were engaged in these sotto voce instructions , Eliot himself was perceived to walk across a passage at the far end of the flat . |
| 5 | The one on the left was half open , revealing a narrow kitchen , little more than a passage with a sink and draining board under a window at the far end , a cooker , refrigerator , a small table and a wooden chair on one side and on the other a laminated work-surface with cupboards and drawers below and a run of shelves above . |
| 6 | Best of all , a kingfisher , black against the red sun , alighted on a post at the far end . |
| 7 | Benjamin leaned against a wall watching a butcher at the far end of the yard hack a haunch of beef into huge , steaming slabs , the blood pouring like red streams over the rough-hewn carving block . |
| 8 | There was no pause between exchanges ; all the while their tongues wagged their hands worked , for the woman at the table went on making her cakes , while Maggie walked back and forth into and out of what he took to be a pantry at the far end of the kitchen , bringing out all that was necessary for a tea . |
| 9 | Brian Everthorpe takes a chair at the far end of the table , slightly withdrawn as if to mark his difference from the engineers . |
| 10 | Léonie tucked herself into a chair at the far end of the table , next to the silent Thérèse , who was n't eating either . |
| 11 | With a mounting feeling of dread , I went to a chair at the far end of the table from Quigley and lowered my head in the gloom . |
| 12 | He walked over to a door at the far end of the office and flung it open . |
| 13 | Grinning unrepentantly , he strode ahead and rapped on a door at the far end of the hall . |
| 14 | But , as she stood undecidedly on the threshold , Marc appeared through a door at the far end . |
| 15 | She led her downstairs along a corridor she had explored on her first day and indicated a door at the far end . |
| 16 | A door at the far end was a little ajar , showing that it led to a white-tiled wash-room . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm referring to the shampooing session , ’ he said curtly , and strode towards a door at the far end . |
| 18 | They pick a path through the crowded gloom inside to a low table in a corner at the far end . |
| 19 | At last he saw the first of the dawn , like light faintly perceived round a corner at the far end of an unknown burrow ; and in the same moment a yellow-hammer sang . |
| 20 | Corbett nodded and was going to pursue the matter further when suddenly a commotion at the far end of the table drew all eyes and silenced the clamour in the hall . |
| 21 | Together they barely had time to take up a position at the far door , seize a loaded gun , drop to one knee , and aim as , with a final heave , the bulging mass of bodies exploded into the room , followed by the living . |
| 22 | We walked to a house at the far end of the fenced area . |
| 23 | In a minute she was past us , making for a table at the far end of the room . |
| 24 | Someone sitting at a table at the far end of the cafe got up and came over to them . |
| 25 | He glimpsed a table at the far end of the tavern with a huge silver nef or spice ship . |
| 26 | Gleeson equalised for London when he met a cross at the far post from his fellow winger Wyke , but Ralph then gave Oxford their first win since they beat Cheam on October 21 . |
| 27 | I hear a gush at the far end of the line , like steam bursting out under pressure . |
| 28 | He opened a cupboard at the far end to reveal a dartboard . |