Example sentences of "stand at the end " in BNC.

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1 A granite memorial to these Groups stands at the end of the former main runway .
2 The timbered Untertor , crowned by its clock within a triangular roof , stands at the end of a narrow street .
3 Public subscriptions provided a replica of Davies 's statue in Barry Docks and his now stands at the end of Llandinam Bridge , in sight of his former home .
4 A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them .
5 Nick is the man with the baseball glove who can stand at the end of the practice range and catch his master 's ball no matter whether it has been struck with a sand-iron or a driver .
6 They could just as easily be train spotters , standing at the end of railway platforms .
7 She was standing at the end of the bed with a candle .
8 Standing at the end of a freezing platform spotting trains is one thing .
9 Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water .
10 He could see a woman holding a young baby standing at the end of the hall .
11 After a long silence , he pointed to a large house standing at the end of a long drive .
12 He used to swear blind he saw his mother standing at the end of the bed .
13 But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club .
14 The cottage , the last in the village , stood at the end of Lime Street , one of the three short streets which converged on the centre of the village and at whose junction stood Stowey 's ramshackle market-house .
15 It will consider , first of all , the state of the finance function as it stood at the end of 1988 , and assess what changes had recently taken place , what were in progress and what further developments could logically have been anticipated .
16 It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working .
17 She stood at the end of Sarah 's bed , all eighteen stone of her .
18 Dowd was not invited to occupy it , but stood at the end of the table , mildly discomfited by the stares of his interrogators .
19 Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived .
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21 Our Father 's wife stood at the end of her bunk .
22 Now Sam looked at his wife as she stood at the end of the long , dark-panelled bedroom , her back to the window , beyond which olive trees rustled in a hot breeze .
23 My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window .
24 Gaveston stood at the end of the gallery , leaning nonchalantly against the wall .
25 The Parc Hotel stood at the end of a long , wide avenue Soseaua Kiseleff .
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