Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at 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 | The simplest involves displaying a large eye-spot marking somewhere at the rear end of the body . |
| 3 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 13 | At that time there was only one other customer , an old man standing quietly at the far end , near the door . |