Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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1 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
2 | This was surprising because Peter Such bowled so well at the other end , it should surely have helped Tufnell . |
3 | Anyway , so erm he said , but you know he was saying to them that er , it 's not just at the bottom end , he said , in our village in Wales we 've got the Sun have now positioned two reporters who have lived in the village the these the they sit in a car outside his house day and night |
4 | Not even at the very end . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ It would look wonderful in a photograph , ’ she remarked thoughtlessly , and was once again at the receiving end of annoyance . |
7 | The former kart champion has elected to skip Formula Ford and jump straight in at the deep end with Martin Donnelly 's team . |
8 | Kennedy , he said , had no previous conviction but in this , his first crime , he had clearly gone straight in at the deep end . |
9 | The O'Neil double-act started up again at the other end of the church , Denis responding to Paddy . |
10 | As he edged forward , Sendei glanced up occasionally at the far end . |
11 | The moment when it enters his or her head , that X was the one who did it , can thus be concealed and brought out only at the very end of the story . |
12 | In any case , the name of the game here seems to be performance-friendly and so you are immediately in at the sharp end with patch number 11 . |