Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's really not hard at all ; you just have to dive in at the deep end . ’ |
| 32 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 33 | As City hit three regal goals through Mike Sheron ( 2 ) and David White , Barlow buzzed around at the other end . |
| 34 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 35 | Lottie was thrown in at the deep end : |
| 36 | THREE Ipswich Witches youngsters will be thrown in at the deep end on Thursday when Foxhall Stadium stages the Star of Anglia on the opening day of the 1993 speedway season . |
| 37 | I was thus , unceremoniously ‘ thrown in at the deep end ’ . |
| 38 | She was immediately thrown in at the deep end when one of her young clients , Lucy Gates , died . |
| 39 | She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim . |
| 40 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 41 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 42 | ‘ I would n't want any child of mine to have to cope with being thrown in at the deep end like that . |
| 43 | Being in control of the finances of an organisation can pose a major headache for some people , especially if they are thrown in at the deep end with little or . |
| 44 | ‘ You must think I 'm an inconsiderate devil if you 're expecting to be thrown in at the deep end to struggle as best you can . ’ |
| 45 | Training will be given and wherever possible the new representative will be thrown in at the deep end . |
| 46 | ‘ Talk about being thrown in at the deep end ! ’ |
| 47 | They 're thrown in at the deep end , and have to develop skills quickly . |
| 48 | ‘ I am being thrown in at the deep end against Blackburn and I am really looking forward to the game . ’ |
| 49 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 50 | They had to be folded up at the rear end . |
| 51 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 52 | I mean , it does come out at the other end very soon afterwards . |
| 53 | They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions . |
| 54 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 55 | Meanwhile , unknown Graham Kavanagh could be tossed in at the deep end for Middlesbrough 's FA Cup clash with Chelsea on Sunday . |
| 56 | ( 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 " ) ) . ) |
| 57 | After a brief interval a reply in a lower key by a similarly religious bird came from what appeared to be a hummock of ivy on a small promontory which jutted out at the further end of the mere . |
| 58 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |
| 59 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 60 | He sat down at the far end of the table . |