Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 2 | Within seconds he had been substituted and within minutes a goal almost came about at the other end . |
| 3 | ‘ I think he is now a far better player than the youngster we threw in at the deep end against Wales last season . |
| 4 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 5 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 6 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 7 | The cast list printed in the wordbook , however , specifies a Grand Dance not of 24 persons but of ‘ 24 Chineses ’ ; while in the manuscript score , copied separately at the reverse end of the book , is the big movement — the longest instrumental number in the entire show — headed ‘ Chaconne : Dance for a Chinese man and woman ’ . |
| 8 | As City hit three regal goals through Mike Sheron ( 2 ) and David White , Barlow buzzed around at the other end . |
| 9 | Jane fidgeted with the signal pads on her desk , plucked a thread from the sleeve of her jacket then stared blankly at the chewed end of her Admiralty-issue pencil . |
| 10 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 11 | The village church , tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane , is dedicated to St Mary . |
| 12 | Various people answered , and no one knew where anyone was , and only three or four times was Alistair successfully connected to the apparently permanent coughing fit that crackled away at the other end of Smith 's extension . |
| 13 | The Gnomes of Gallan sat together at the far end of the table . |
| 14 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 15 | He sat down at the far end of the table . |
| 16 | She wanted to spend as much time as possible with them and ended up at the other end of the plane . ’ |
| 17 | He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her . |