Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at the other 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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | A sharp click sounded at the other end of the line and a voice muttered something . |
8 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar . |
11 | She waited for the phone to ring at the other end . |
12 | I know , er , well where the path is , the only problem is where the edge finishes at the other end , at the bottom end , right , there 's gon na be a gap there and I wan na close that gap off somehow . |
13 | The man sitting at the other end of the bench took a quarter-bottle of whisky from the pocket of his torn donkey-jacket , twisted off the gold tin top and took a swig . |
14 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
15 | The second major problem with Comte 's positivism lies at the other end of his hierarchy , at the level of the social . |
16 | The block of paranoia sitting at the other end of the table minutely shifted shape . |
17 | They have conceded only three goals — all from set-pieces — in opening defeats by Korea ( 0-1 ) and Spain ( 0-2 ) , but the major deficiency lies at the other end of the pitch . |