Example sentences of "stood at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She stood at the end of Sarah 's bed , all eighteen stone of her . |
| 6 | Dowd was not invited to occupy it , but stood at the end of the table , mildly discomfited by the stares of his interrogators . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | who stood at the end of summer |
| 9 | Our Father 's wife stood at the end of her bunk . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gaveston stood at the end of the gallery , leaning nonchalantly against the wall . |
| 13 | The Parc Hotel stood at the end of a long , wide avenue Soseaua Kiseleff . |