Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [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 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I could n't convince them at the other end that I needed an ambulance because I was outside the hospital . |
| 10 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
| 13 | Ted had pulled Katherine away , was navigating her towards the other end of the room . |
| 14 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 15 | The teller of tall tales poked Rex in the chest with his pistol and steered him to the far end of the room . |
| 16 | And since it is a counter motion , I will take it at the very end with any other counter motions , and therefore I am not asking the convenor to reply to it because if we had a vote on it at this stage , we 'd either be we , we would therefore be sealing completely this deliverance number four as it stands . |
| 17 | I see let take it from the other end , why did you have to take the insertion of the contingency fund of the estimates |
| 18 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 19 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 20 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 21 | One evening , while enjoying a cigarette , I noticed how the draught coming under the doors collected up the tobacco smoke and drifted it towards the opposite end of the room where a tank was . |
| 22 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , you seem to have them by the wrong end , but , seeing as no amount of protestations will make you change your mind , I sha n't bother . |
| 24 | " Load character " extracts the character referred to by the descriptor , placing it in the least-significant end of the accumulator ( clearing the rest of the accumulator ) ; " Deposit character " stores the character from the least-significant end of the accumulator at the position referred to by the descriptor ( leaving the rest of the string unaffected ) . |
| 25 | She got what she wanted and left me with the rough end of the stick … . |
| 26 | ‘ We got the two goals back , but you have to stop them at the other end as well . |
| 27 | Unfortunately the Northern Ireland attitude seems to be , ‘ throw them into the deep end and let them swim ’ , the result being too many export efforts sink to the bottom of the pool . |
| 28 | Then catch the 79 Seatoller service from Keswick to take you to the southern end of Derwentwater . |
| 29 | It 's a simple strategy ; score a goal at one end and hope Big Tommy saves you at the other end . |
| 30 | Tommy winked at Rose , then left Charlie to join her at the far end of the bar . |