Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 2 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 3 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 4 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 5 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 6 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 7 | Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain . |
| 8 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 9 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
| 10 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 11 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 12 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 13 | Alina perched herself on the far end of the three-seater . |
| 14 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 15 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 16 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 17 | Janet 's counsellor Mamie Graham is on the end of a phone 24 hours a day for those who find themselves at the sharp end of crime . |
| 18 | Stringent safety measures now operate on buses to help drivers who , like Mr Seymour , find themselves at the sharp end of Strathclyde 's rising tide of serious crime . |
| 19 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |