Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [art] [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 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 3 | " There you go , girl , " I said at the other end , when I brought in the final batch . |
| 4 | They are Sekers Fabrics , David Evans and Vanners Silks , all of which manufacture fabrics which sell at the top end of their markets . |
| 5 | Mr Hague could usefully ask the same question about the Esk Valley line , part of which runs at the opposite end of his constituency . |
| 6 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
| 7 | Who lived at the top end of our street |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 12 | Even when you look at the outer end of the physical spectrum , there are hopeful signs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He is spending big at Liverpool again but when you operate at the top end of the market prices will always be high . ’ |
| 16 | She chewed at the spiky end of a plait and kicked at a kitchen chair-leg . |
| 17 | They passed from her to Louis , who sat at the other end of the sofa reading Le Figaro . |
| 18 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 19 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 20 | We start at the high end : |
| 21 | Yes the particular item that was deleted was known as the combat override facility which erm was really a trade off erm to provide extra thrust against the reduced life of the engine and clearly if one operates at the top end of the engine spectrum in er hotter conditions and higher er R P M then clearly the life of the engine will be reduced . |
| 22 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 23 | They sat at the far end of the carriage , talking in hushed tones . |
| 24 | He takes his time strolling over , and when he gets here he sits at the far end of the bench like he does n't know me . |
| 25 | is it at the top end of the , it starts at the top end of the slope ? |
| 26 | A simple way to appreciate what it means is to visualise the Spectra line being passed down a hollow tube ( the ‘ sleeve ’ ) until it appears at the other end . |
| 27 | On his way into Spain in 76 BC , Pompey annexed the valley of the river Garonne , which forms the main axis of Comminges , and four years later , on his way back from Spain , he founded at the northern end of it the city of Lugdunum Convenarum , where Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges stands today . |
| 28 | As he emerged at the other end he was aware of a frightful , blinding , stunning pain in his head , and then nothing . |
| 29 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 30 | ‘ What happens at the other end ? ’ |