Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! " |
| 2 | Her eyes peered towards the deep end , where Nails was holding his brother down and the lifeguard was getting worried . |
| 3 | During the night a couple of German shells crashed into the far end of the orchard near the road . |
| 4 | At eleven o'clock the big Volvo appeared at the far end of the hangar and drove slowly towards him , coming to a stop with its engine running forty feet away . |
| 5 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 6 | ‘ Indeed … ’ began Wu Shih , then stopped , turning as his Chancellor appeared at the far end of the gallery . |
| 7 | A large man and a small boy appeared at the other end of the platform : she hobbled on her heels , humping her heavy suitcase , towards them . |
| 8 | Roscarrock Hall stood at the southern end of the village of Polruan , occupying several acres of terraced fields , outbuildings and woodland . |
| 9 | The Upper Mill stood at the western end of the village , and was always a corn mill . |
| 10 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 12 | McMillan 's unbeaten record lasted until the sixth end when they lost 7-6 to another Stranraer team , skipped by Peter Wilson . |
| 13 | Robert dived into the shallow end of the pool at Nettlebed and sustained a broken neck and back injuries . |
| 14 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 15 | Then the Oxford prop Jones was warned for stamping , another penalty was awarded and Cambridge swept to the other end to seal the match with an opportunist try by Adrian Davies . |
| 16 | The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl . |
| 17 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |
| 18 | Fairham looked to the far end of the infirmary . |
| 19 | He had just reached the box when a man on a bicycle appeared at the far end of the street . |
| 20 | An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar . |
| 21 | Jack 's mother Lilly sat at the far end of the table opposite her husband . |
| 22 | The aunt gestured to the far end of the sun porch where one of her sons sat . |
| 23 | A white sink shone at the far end , some sort of covered porcelain bucket underneath it . |
| 24 | We were told what to do and then left , as the instructor went to the other end of the loch to shout instructions at a few stranded boats . |
| 25 | They sat on arguing for three hours while Ella went into the other end of the house and sang quietly to the baby and wee Alex came home filthy from playing and sat drowsily beside the fire , chewing at the bones of the fowl . |
| 26 | A woman stood at the shallow end , her hand under the chin of a small child , encouraging it along . |
| 27 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 28 | One of the mares galloped to the far end of the field where she stopped and started to crop . |
| 29 | On another occasion I had set out alone across Peterhead Outer Harbour with our 17ft Searider to fetch the rummage crew off a ship when careless stowage of the bow rope resulted in the trailing end catching the propeller . |
| 30 | ‘ So you 've finally lost your last marble ’ a voice said from the far end of the room . |