Example sentences of "[adv] at the other end 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 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 .
9 He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 She 's right at the other end of the room and is deaf and blind when she has to be . "
14 Her family were all up north , in Darlington , right at the other end of the country .
15 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 .
16 There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’
17 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 .
18 The O'Neil double-act started up again at the other end of the church , Denis responding to Paddy .
19 It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted .
20 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 .
21 Elizabeth 's upbringing was certainly at the other end of the spectrum from Mary 's .
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