Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at one [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men sleep together at one end of the dwelling , on a raised ledge covered with more clean straw which , of course , must be brought with them . |
| 2 | In a cavity between it and the central part of the body , most species have gills which are continually bathed by a current of oxygen-bearing water , sucked in at one end of the cavity and expelled at the other . |
| 3 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 5 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 6 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 7 | Three men huddle uncomfortably at one end of the table . |
| 8 | But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ . |
| 9 | This example page , which is also set out at one second of runtime per line , shows that the original sync sound transfers continue without a break , but additional background sound ( voices ) is to be faded in at the beginning of shot 18 . |
| 10 | The three of them were all sitting together at one corner of the table , but the table was large and there were many other seats . |
| 11 | With a scream of rubber worthy of the car chase in The French Connection , she brakes , swerves , jumps the pavement and steers straight at one set of combatants . |
| 12 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 13 | The lives of men could be snuffed out at one snap of his gnarled fingers — and frequently were . |
| 14 | Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list . |
| 15 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |