Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 2 | Formed by looping the pile yarn across two warp strands and then drawing each end back through the inside of both warps . |
| 3 | And if you lived this end of the village you was an uptowner , see ? |
| 4 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 5 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 6 | Rather than accepting this end point , they want to push on and ask how individuals got the properties — including their desires , intentions and so forth that are regarded as root causes by individualists . |
| 7 | Or were the acts which produced this end so far away from them in time that somehow the temporal distance anaesthetised reality ? |
| 8 | It is also supposed to announce it has finished porting Top End to Pyramid Technology Corp machines . |
| 9 | So you 've , is there then a choice between going for socialism now , going straight into collectivization or delaying it and keeping that end product in sight ? |
| 10 | The systematic study of information technology ( informatics ) is in its infancy and although there is general agreement that its potential for human progress is enormous , there is a good deal of pessimism as to the probability that those who control it will actively seek this end over their own private interests ( see Schiller , 1989 ; Journal of Communication , 1989 ) . |
| 11 | NCR is expected to position Top End 2.0 as protecting current investments in IBM Corp hardware and software , including CICS environments , and easing the transition from legacy systems . |
| 12 | NCR Corp will be announcing Top End 2.0 in the middle of next month , its next-generation transaction processor for mainframe-class on-line transaction processing applications in client/server environments . |
| 13 | Place this end to the leading edges of the curtains , turning in the ends of the tape . |
| 14 | AT&T Co 's Tuxedo transaction processing monitor — now with Unix System Laboratories Inc — seems to have lost out to NCR Corp 's Top End in the acquisition , and now NCR wants Top End to be more widely used . |
| 15 | So I cut out a straight section of wire coat hanger , heated one end until it was cherry red , hammered it flat , then , when it cooled , filed the edges smooth and drilled a small hole in it . |
| 16 | He must tie one end of the string to the opening of the cave and then let the ball unwind as he went down into the labyrinth . |
| 17 | One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like . |
| 18 | Those blessed with a prophetic vision of soccer 's future , like Mike Channon and myself , are often completely ignored or misunderstood , whereas charlatans who would not know one end of a football from another , the Reg Pybuses and Howard Wilkinsons of this world , suck up to mediocrity and call it talent . |
| 19 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
| 20 | Your family doctor may know one end of a thyroid gland from another-with any luck — but no especial wisdom is granted him because he sits in a surgery seeing one coughing person after another all day ; peering into ears and wombs and hearing tales of insomnia and worms . |
| 21 | Some of them hardly seem to know one end of a horse from another . |
| 22 | Keeping one end of the sleeve open , secure it to the blue side of the body . |
| 23 | Use mole grips to secure one end of the wire to the foot while the rest is being looped round . |
| 24 | The method of fishing employed was to secure one end of the dragnet on the shore and the other on the boat . |
| 25 | Fit one end of the wire with spade connectors to fit those on the solenoid valve . |
| 26 | She was winding one end of it into a little ball . |
| 27 | clutters one end of the garage . |
| 28 | Trains from Bulawayo used one end of this platform and trains from Umtali the other . |
| 29 | He used one end to shield his mouth from the smoke and wrapped the other around the fingers of his free hand . |
| 30 | Has other end already been used ? |