Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 2 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 3 | And as he poked around the undergrowth for hidden poachers , another shot would ring out from the far end of the water . |
| 4 | If you still can not reach up to the extreme end and determine that the burrow is now empty you must reintroduce your line ferret once more to do the job for you . |
| 5 | They have hit out at the FR 's refusal to reject a lease on the Caernarfon to Dinas Junction section of the former LMS branch to Afonwen and start work on the proposed introduction of a two-foot gauge line which would link up with the northern end of the former Welsh Highland line . |
| 6 | Dan 's questions were annoying Kate and if he was n't careful he just might end up on the receiving end of her tongue . |
| 7 | I mean , it does come out at the other end very soon afterwards . |
| 8 | Burning straw was the best fun — it was poked through the grill at the front of the grate and , when it caught fire , smoke would stream out of the other end . |
| 9 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 10 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 11 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |