Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] [adj] end [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was immediately thrown in at the deep end when one of her young clients , Lucy Gates , died . |
| 2 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 3 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 4 | She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim . |
| 5 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 6 | Now McFall either jumps in at the deep end or dithers and backs off — he never falls off . |
| 7 | Both engines are extremely tractable , but the Calibra pulls hardest from ultra-low revs and beyond 4000rpm , while the Corrado wins through at the top end and lower-mid range . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |