Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 3 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 4 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |
| 5 | It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes . |
| 6 | If it is too drastic to jump in at the deep end with such a sweeping change , why not try it out in experimental matches , festival or night matches ? |
| 7 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 8 | Not wanting to jump in at the deep end , I hired the school the day before and went with Karen , a friend who wanted to give her experienced but spooky horse an indoor schooling session . |
| 9 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever . |
| 12 | Both engines are extremely tractable , but the Calibra pulls hardest from ultra-low revs and beyond 4000rpm , while the Corrado wins through at the top end and lower-mid range . |
| 13 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Within seconds he had been substituted and within minutes a goal almost came about at the other end . |
| 16 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I think he is now a far better player than the youngster we threw in at the deep end against Wales last season . |
| 19 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 20 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 21 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 22 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 23 | Keeping things simple is often the best bet , an investment of both time and effort is required to learn anything new , so diving in at the deep end with one of the full-blown integrated packages may cause more disruption than it 's worth . |
| 24 | So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again . |
| 25 | Now McFall either jumps in at the deep end or dithers and backs off — he never falls off . |
| 26 | Tom jumps in at the deep end |
| 27 | Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 30 | THE AGRICULTURAL Research Council is about to dive in at the deep end of commercial research by launching the Agricultural Genetics Company . |