Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 2 | There had been a cancellation so two seats would be available on a Tarom flight five days hence with a Romanian Automobile Club hire car waiting at the other end . |
| 3 | We now have to pass the wire all the way through the sleeve so that its bend or fold emerges at the other end . |
| 4 | The manufacture of the 12 ton covered wagon underframe commenced at the eastern end of the shop , with assembly of the headstocks , diagonals , and longitudes in a fixture ; these were then riveted by pneumatic rivet machines . |
| 5 | The frequency of political discussions rose sharply between the pre-campaign week and the final campaign , but then it continued to rise steadily throughout the campaign to peak at the very end . |
| 6 | it creates extra communication problems , since top management is more remote from the work done at the bottom end of the organisation , and information tends to get distorted or blocked on its way up or down through the organisation hierarchy ; |
| 7 | Attached to the bottom of the betalite , which is encased in a plastic tube for protection , is a length of braided terylene tied at the other end to my back rod-rest , so that when I strike the indicator pulls off and drops to the ground . |
| 8 | Such eminent builders as Conrad Graf ( 1782–1851 ) and Johann Fritz ( active between 1810 and 1825 ) used the Walter type of check , the single batten sprung at the treble end . |
| 9 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 10 | ‘ Indeed … ’ began Wu Shih , then stopped , turning as his Chancellor appeared at the far end of the gallery . |
| 11 | A large man and a small boy appeared at the other end of the platform : she hobbled on her heels , humping her heavy suitcase , towards them . |
| 12 | Roscarrock Hall stood at the southern end of the village of Polruan , occupying several acres of terraced fields , outbuildings and woodland . |
| 13 | The Upper Mill stood at the western end of the village , and was always a corn mill . |
| 14 | The junction lies at the far end of Junction 6 of the M6 , Gravelly Hill Interchange or Spaghetti Junction , the most complicated motorway interchange in Britain , offering freeflow routes between the M6 , A38M and A5127 and also linking in various local roads . |
| 15 | The clamped end of the system is then vibrated laterally at a given frequency v and the amplitude of the vibration induced at the free end of the sample is recorded . |
| 16 | Easily Accessible : The village of Raskelf is a rural community lying at the northern end of the Vale of York , a few miles from the Hambleton Hills which form the southern edge of the North York Moors . |
| 17 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 18 | As well as engineering this link , James Brindley also built the Staffordshire and Worcestershire ( or Wolverhampton ) Canal connecting at the other end with the Severn . |
| 19 | A sharp click sounded at the other end of the line and a voice muttered something . |
| 20 | The shopping facilities of Beverley are only nine miles to the east and the M62 motorway starts at the western end of the village . |
| 21 | the wire mesh used at the wet end of the paper making process . |
| 22 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |
| 23 | Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes . |
| 24 | He had just reached the box when a man on a bicycle appeared at the far end of the street . |
| 25 | An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar . |
| 26 | She waited for the phone to ring at the other end . |
| 27 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 28 | It was entered by a narrow door in Meard Street and reached by a tiny , rickety lift situated at the far end of a gloomy passage . |
| 29 | A white sink shone at the far end , some sort of covered porcelain bucket underneath it . |
| 30 | Sir : Am I alone in seeing the debate focused at the wrong end of the argument ? |