Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 2 | " There you go , girl , " I said at the other end , when I brought in the final batch . |
| 3 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 4 | She chewed at the spiky end of a plait and kicked at a kitchen chair-leg . |
| 5 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 6 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 7 | They sat at the far end of the carriage , talking in hushed tones . |
| 8 | On his way into Spain in 76 BC , Pompey annexed the valley of the river Garonne , which forms the main axis of Comminges , and four years later , on his way back from Spain , he founded at the northern end of it the city of Lugdunum Convenarum , where Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges stands today . |
| 9 | As he emerged at the other end he was aware of a frightful , blinding , stunning pain in his head , and then nothing . |