Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 2 | Next , of course , the Perks came , swarming up into the open end of the hangar where the Alice sat , ticking and steaming as she cooled . |
| 3 | The simplest involves displaying a large eye-spot marking somewhere at the rear end of the body . |
| 4 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 5 | he just do n't like going down to the deep end |
| 6 | ‘ One of our sons was with us for eight months before going away to the other end of the earth — I could n't even phone him . |
| 7 | It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street . |
| 8 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 9 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 10 | This page and View from City Road , page 33 Pay rises : Two surveys show that pay is rising faster at the top end of the scales than at the bottom . |
| 11 | Keeping things simple is often the best bet , an investment of both time and effort is required to learn anything new , so diving in at the deep end with one of the full-blown integrated packages may cause more disruption than it 's worth . |
| 12 | So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again . |
| 13 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 16 | There 's a grand walk that begins and ends at Bainbridge , travelling along the Roman road , cutting across to the bottom end of Raydale by Marsett and Stalling Busk to Semer Water and back along the river Bain to the village green . |
| 17 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 18 | Then I realized he was n't stopping outside Sunil 's house , but carrying on to the other end of the road . |
| 19 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 20 | At that time there was only one other customer , an old man standing quietly at the far end , near the door . |
| 21 | Fortunately one of the good points about losing the seven stroke nine business is that Pauline transferred some of the stock of that seven stroke nine bearing on to the other end . |