Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox .
2 Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad .
3 Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever .
4 Fenella and Floy and Snodgrass had sat quietly at the other side of the table , not eating very much , listening carefully to everything that was said .
5 And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’
6 Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) .
7 It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand
8 I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back .
9 They were done once at the other house were n't they ?
10 She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages .
11 They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars .
12 I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street .
13 ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior .
14 Within seconds he had been substituted and within minutes a goal almost came about at the other end .
15 There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’
16 Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room .
17 ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said .
18 As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers .
19 I particularly try and develop an atmosphere of autonomy in the subsidiary companies where they feel they are part of a team and can look across at the other companies and can see admirable things going on .
20 Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end .
21 As the old man reluctantly accepted a sip of water , he glanced over at the other bed .
22 Lewis , having been missed by a diving Moin after edging Akram , was yorked comprehensively at the other end .
23 Donna glanced round at the other occupants of the room but they were all hunched over their chosen books , seated at the wooden desks .
24 The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’
25 Determined not to show fear , Isabel stood her ground before the rage in Matilda 's eyes , staring back at the other woman defiantly .
26 He stumbled but did n't fall , turning his motion to attack with balletic ease , and coming back at the other man with tremendous force .
27 Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves .
28 Ewen Mackay had been staring hard at the other man while they talked .
29 He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap .
30 ‘ Yes , Dr Markham , I was , ’ she nodded then looked back at the other man .
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