Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the other [noun] 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 The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room .
3 She wanted to spend as much time as possible with them and ended up at the other end of the plane . ’
4 They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars .
5 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 .
6 He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her .
7 There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’
8 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 .
9 Donna glanced round at the other occupants of the room but they were all hunched over their chosen books , seated at the wooden desks .
10 It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs .
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