Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |
| 2 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 3 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 4 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 5 | Guy was sitting at the pool 's edge as she swam back to the shallow end . |
| 6 | The shod-wave infrared ( SWIR ) that lies closest to the red end of the visible spectrum behaves like visible light ( except that our eyes can not detect it ) . |
| 7 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 8 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 9 | he just do n't like going down to the deep end |
| 10 | ‘ One of our sons was with us for eight months before going away to the other end of the earth — I could n't even phone him . |
| 11 | As the deputation withdrew tactfully to the further end of the great chamber , the queen-dowager conferred with her family , listening to their conflicting views and in the process becoming more undecided than ever . |
| 12 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 13 | Rachel followed a squealing Belinda down the steps while David walked up to the deep end , dived in and swam back to join the rest of the group . |
| 14 | In Chapters 5 and 6 we counted only those paths which spanned the entire utterance , anchoring the beginning of the search at the left-hand end and ignoring all paths that failed to match through to the right-hand end . |
| 15 | There 's a grand walk that begins and ends at Bainbridge , travelling along the Roman road , cutting across to the bottom end of Raydale by Marsett and Stalling Busk to Semer Water and back along the river Bain to the village green . |
| 16 | This revolving of him in her mind led invariably to the same end , the same fear , that he would go away from Hilderbridge without her seeing him and then she would never see him again . |
| 17 | They went over to the far end of the pit . |
| 18 | If you still can not reach up to the extreme end and determine that the burrow is now empty you must reintroduce your line ferret once more to do the job for you . |
| 19 | Then I realized he was n't stopping outside Sunil 's house , but carrying on to the other end of the road . |
| 20 | A final comment , to move right to the other end of the production process . |
| 21 | Fortunately one of the good points about losing the seven stroke nine business is that Pauline transferred some of the stock of that seven stroke nine bearing on to the other end . |
| 22 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 23 | I turned without stopping and crawled back to the deep end , looking back as I breathed to make sure she was following . |
| 24 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 25 | ‘ The Renegades ’ from Dundalk certainly held on to the very end . |
| 26 | He held on to the other end , it went underneath him . |
| 27 | Two bespectacled scientists , doing an early season wasp count , were about to head back to the far end of the lake with their analyses of how often the summer visitors would be stung that year . |