Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph rode slowly from the southern end of the camp , with five warriors walking beside him and leaning against his horse 's flanks . |
| 2 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |
| 3 | About two years ago I had fitted , for an embarrassingly large sum , a secondhand dies-at a very reputable L/R specialist situated somewhere near the present end of the M65 . |
| 4 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 5 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 6 | Great torque , good mid-range power , but needs more at the top end . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 9 | She watched him walk sideways towards the other end of the stage , his arm outstretched in her direction . |
| 10 | When you 're inside there if you look right at the far end you 'll see one of the old windows , a beautiful old window that 's five hundred years old . |
| 11 | The simplest involves displaying a large eye-spot marking somewhere at the rear end of the body . |
| 12 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 15 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 16 | Lewis , having been missed by a diving Moin after edging Akram , was yorked comprehensively at the other end . |
| 17 | This page and View from City Road , page 33 Pay rises : Two surveys show that pay is rising faster at the top end of the scales than at the bottom . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With heart in mouth he pulled tight on the free end . |
| 21 | The cast list printed in the wordbook , however , specifies a Grand Dance not of 24 persons but of ‘ 24 Chineses ’ ; while in the manuscript score , copied separately at the reverse end of the book , is the big movement — the longest instrumental number in the entire show — headed ‘ Chaconne : Dance for a Chinese man and woman ’ . |
| 22 | Jane fidgeted with the signal pads on her desk , plucked a thread from the sleeve of her jacket then stared blankly at the chewed end of her Admiralty-issue pencil . |
| 23 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 24 | As the church owned and managed the majority of the schools its faithful attended , and had a role in the management of the bulk of the remainder , the Roman catholic laity were left mainly on the receiving end of the educational policy thus legitimated . |
| 25 | They live today with the broad end buried in the sediment , where they forage for food using small prehensile filaments . |
| 26 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 27 | At that time there was only one other customer , an old man standing quietly at the far end , near the door . |
| 28 | Good carpet on the floor , dark oak panelling on the lower half of the walls , Miss Hinkle 's desk situated strategically at the far end by the side of the entrance to my own room . |
| 29 | A final comment , to move right to the other end of the production process . |
| 30 | The village church , tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane , is dedicated to St Mary . |