Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 3 | ‘ Indeed … ’ began Wu Shih , then stopped , turning as his Chancellor appeared at the far end of the gallery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Roscarrock Hall stood at the southern end of the village of Polruan , occupying several acres of terraced fields , outbuildings and woodland . |
| 6 | The Upper Mill stood at the western end of the village , and was always a corn mill . |
| 7 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 8 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 9 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |
| 10 | He had just reached the box when a man on a bicycle appeared at the far end of the street . |
| 11 | An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar . |
| 12 | Jack 's mother Lilly sat at the far end of the table opposite her husband . |
| 13 | A white sink shone at the far end , some sort of covered porcelain bucket underneath it . |
| 14 | A woman stood at the shallow end , her hand under the chin of a small child , encouraging it along . |
| 15 | The the horse-drawn lorries going to the different curing stations where the gutter girls stood at the far end dressed in their oilskin aprons ready to start the day 's work . |
| 16 | ‘ Albert stood at the other end , to balance her , ’ said Finn . |
| 17 | Moments later an official appeared at the far end of the corridor and hurried to him . |
| 18 | The chapel was small , an altar stood at the further end from the entrance we came in by . |
| 19 | Later , as bronze was replaced by iron , the Golasecca culture arose at the southern end of Lake Maggiore . |
| 20 | Ashley sat at the other end of the sofa , well away from him . |
| 21 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |