Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are operating at the bottom end of the market with no capital and no security . |
| 2 | Ah , but is this only because people are suffering at the other end ? |
| 3 | Nigel Rolnis found out … and in April he 'll be looking at the other end of the market , £6,000 . |
| 4 | A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall . |
| 5 | Two men were standing at the further end of the clearing shooting at a wand . |
| 6 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 7 | Mr. Lorrimer 's voice , frail and querulous , was bleating at the other end . |
| 8 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 9 | A fourth gang had meanwhile laid a narrow bogey line downhill from the woods to the workings and soon a steady flow of timber , all cut to lengths , was arriving at the lower end . |
| 10 | A policeman was standing at the other end of the alley . |
| 11 | his school uniform , strip naked , was standing at the other end of the pool did n't say anything , Al Alistair , deaf guy |
| 12 | Yvonne was standing at the far end of the room in her red tent dress , her arms extended , a glass of brandy glimmering in one hand . |
| 13 | T'zin was standing at the far end , and Jotan and Nogai were circling one another in the wide space of one of the loose boxes . |
| 14 | She was standing at the far end of the room , waiting for him . |
| 15 | There was a pause — presumably the phone was ringing at the other end . |
| 16 | His Mum was phoning now ; no one was answering at the other end . |