Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 3 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 4 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 5 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 6 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 7 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
| 8 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 9 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 10 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
| 11 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 12 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 13 | Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain . |
| 14 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 15 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
| 16 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 17 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 18 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 19 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
| 20 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 21 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |
| 22 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 23 | And when you 've er loose them in the fore end or the front of the lock or do anything like that that article as it 's in , when you lock it out it 's got ta fit just as tight when it 's locked out as when it 's in . |
| 24 | I could n't convince them at the other end that I needed an ambulance because I was outside the hospital . |
| 25 | Alina perched herself on the far end of the three-seater . |
| 26 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 27 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 28 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
| 29 | Some of these were to be offered as votives in the temple 's sanctuaries : others entered a trading network which might take them to the farthest ends of the island or overseas . |
| 30 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |