Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 2 | Great torque , good mid-range power , but needs more at the top end . |
| 3 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The simplest involves displaying a large eye-spot marking somewhere at the rear end of the body . |
| 6 | I have opted for a selection of Amazon Swords , Giant Vallis , Fountain plants , Twisted Vallis and Cryptocorynes , The Crypts will fare better at the dimmer end of the tank . |
| 7 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 8 | Lewis , having been missed by a diving Moin after edging Akram , was yorked comprehensively at the other end . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 14 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 15 | At that time there was only one other customer , an old man standing quietly at the far end , near the door . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The village church , tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane , is dedicated to St Mary . |
| 18 | Various people answered , and no one knew where anyone was , and only three or four times was Alistair successfully connected to the apparently permanent coughing fit that crackled away at the other end of Smith 's extension . |
| 19 | The Gnomes of Gallan sat together at the far end of the table . |
| 20 | It 's all the same stuff you know , we ca n't move forward unless it comes forward at the other end |