Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 2 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 3 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 4 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 5 | ‘ I know whose voice I heard on the other end of the line . ’ |
| 6 | So I always say well I went backwards , I went to the dead end you know I think I ended up very low in the Co-op really you know er but erm |
| 7 | I went to the cracked end of the old slipway at the north end of the island . |
| 8 | I think to the top end , then those of you who were struggling around with D syndrome at moment , you know let's get you pushed in there . |
| 9 | " There you go , girl , " I said at the other end , when I brought in the final batch . |
| 10 | They are Sekers Fabrics , David Evans and Vanners Silks , all of which manufacture fabrics which sell at the top end of their markets . |
| 11 | But even the Randolph , which caters for the top end of the market , has felt the chill wind of economic depression . |
| 12 | As their gut bacteria ferment cellulose , they generate methane gas , which escapes from the rear ends of the insects . |
| 13 | Mr Hague could usefully ask the same question about the Esk Valley line , part of which runs at the opposite end of his constituency . |
| 14 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
| 15 | Who lived at the top end of our street |
| 16 | She lives at the other end , Blackberry Lane , I 'm not sure of the number , but I was told she has a monkey puzzle tree in her front garden . |
| 17 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 19 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 20 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 21 | Even when you look at the outer end of the physical spectrum , there are hopeful signs . |
| 22 | She nodded towards the far end of the table and then turned her back on them , pouring the milk into two big cauldrons by the fire . |
| 23 | But we do n't find , if you like at the top end of the corporate finance market , that they are yet as significant a competitor as are er rivals among the leading firms . |
| 24 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 25 | Now upstairs there are people working , so when you get to the far end we ask you do n't go straight upstairs , if you can wait please and we 'll we 'll we 'll all you 'll all go up in the room together , . |
| 26 | There is a s distinct advantage of course is when you get to the other end if you 've labelled it all or you know y what you 've put into which box , you know what you want out immediately , like the kettle . |
| 27 | ‘ He is spending big at Liverpool again but when you operate at the top end of the market prices will always be high . ’ |
| 28 | And then she took in the claw-like ends , curling inwards to grasp the stair . |
| 29 | She chewed at the spiky end of a plait and kicked at a kitchen chair-leg . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if you went to the other end of the scale and in that same season you looked at all horses that were offered at precisely two to one on , then you 'll find that there were twenty two horses which were offered at those odds and fifteen of them won . |