Example sentences of "come from the [adj] end [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl . |
| 2 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 3 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 5 | It is the scent of sweet basil , and it is coming from the far end of the market where a solitary wrinkled old man sits on an upturned basket , scores and scores of basil plants ringed all around him like a protective hedge . |
| 6 | We need to be able to take deliveries at all times of the day and it is very difficult to dictate to carriers , especially when they come from the other end of the country , what time they can deliver . |
| 7 | The Lofthouse and Middlesmoor Prize Band played a selection of music ; a note in the feast programme remarked on the fact that the band comes from the upper end of Nidderdale , from which dale hailed the Netherdale Singers , who were paid five shillings — according to the church accounts — for appearing at Burnsall Feast in 1740 . |