Example sentences of "[adv] at the other [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions . |
| 2 | It does n't matter that they may be 700 miles away at the other end of a data link . |
| 3 | Various people answered , and no one knew where anyone was , and only three or four times was Alistair successfully connected to the apparently permanent coughing fit that crackled away at the other end of Smith 's extension . |
| 4 | I recall summer commenced on 1 May in Newcastle for our ‘ shirt sleeve order ’ ; meanwhile at the other end of the Northumbrian body , para. 32 of the order commands that ‘ trousers will be worn with the bottoms of the trouser legs , at the front , just touching the instep ’ . |
| 5 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 6 | She wanted to spend as much time as possible with them and ended up at the other end of the plane . ’ |
| 7 | To the left of the camera , and probably at the other end of the studio to get the size ratio right , we had a black draped set for the miniaturised companion to walk in front of . |
| 8 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 9 | Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves . |
| 10 | He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her . |
| 11 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 12 | The invading motorway , the M62 , sliced and slashed its way across the peaceful countryside , separating the lovely old Quaker Farm from some of its pastureland , which is now at the other side of the flyover which almost marks the boundary between Sandholme and Gilberdyke . |
| 13 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 14 | These are the rhyolites , which are right at the other end of the spectrum from basalts ; that is to say they are acid , contain a lot of silica and have the same composition as granite . |
| 15 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 16 | She 's right at the other end of the room and is deaf and blind when she has to be . " |
| 17 | Her family were all up north , in Darlington , right at the other end of the country . |
| 18 | Joe said , ‘ Where and when ? ’ and Ashdown fumbled around a little at the other end of the line and then came up with an address . |
| 19 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 20 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 21 | The O'Neil double-act started up again at the other end of the church , Denis responding to Paddy . |
| 22 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 23 | This footbridge was however at the other end of the platform , and most passengers got into the habit of going to the station exit across the tracks despite the standard railway warnings not to do so . |
| 24 | Donna glanced round at the other occupants of the room but they were all hunched over their chosen books , seated at the wooden desks . |
| 25 | It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs . |
| 26 | Fenella and Floy and Snodgrass had sat quietly at the other side of the table , not eating very much , listening carefully to everything that was said . |
| 27 | Elizabeth 's upbringing was certainly at the other end of the spectrum from Mary 's . |