Example sentences of "was at the [adj] end [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
| 2 | Another son , Paul , was at the other end of the link in Los Angeles . |
| 3 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 4 | As usual when drunk , he spoke to her as if she was at the other end of the street . |
| 5 | For TV , subject to the pattern of broadcast programme hours , the peak was at the other end of the day . |
| 6 | Cowslip himself was at the other end of the hall and Hazel realized that he was waiting for him to reply . |
| 7 | God was at the other end of the room . |
| 8 | Sarah 's bedroom was at the other end of the landing , next to her brother 's . |
| 9 | The woman was at the other end of the counter weighing bull's-eyes , and called at her just to leave the money . |
| 10 | Mrs Clamp was at the other end of the table from my father instead of me , as is traditional . |
| 11 | I could n't see it too clearly 'cos it was at the other end of the pitch , but it seemed that Jamie had the ball around the right hand edge of the box and curled it into the top left hand corner . |
| 12 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 13 | I saw a white male nearest to us , in in a double bed which was at the other end of the the the bedroom . |
| 14 | As she made her way to the blue and white tiled bathroom which was at the other end of the house , there was another clap of thunder and the lightning flashed again . |
| 15 | She was at the deep end of the pool when Felipe suddenly surfaced beside her . |
| 16 | Serum calcium ( corrected to an albumin concentration of 40 g/L ) was at the lower end of the normal reference range in all three patient groups ( table II ) . |
| 17 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 18 | By the time he reached the gallery his mother was at the far end of the broad corridor , but she was n't going into her room or into his room , she was making for the attic stairs , and now it was his turn to raise his eyebrows . |
| 19 | The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward . |
| 20 | The man was at the far end of a line of slowly moving pack animals , and he had not noticed anything . |
| 21 | It was at the far end of the attics . |
| 22 | The study door was open and there he was at the far end of the laboratory . |
| 23 | ‘ He was at the far end of the table ; he had no opportunity . ’ |
| 24 | It was at the southern end of ‘ the terraces ’ one of the older residential areas of the town , and not far from the Burgers ' . |
| 25 | And er we were coming out of We were getting the tub out an and er me brother was at the front end of th It went off the rails and er as he pushed it back , I was at the back and it jammed me again the face , and broke this collar bone . |
| 26 | Her caravan was at the worst end of the site , surrounded by a sea of mud whenever it rained , and close to the rubbish dump . |
| 27 | Apart from Classic Illustrated , which was at the top end of the market , a wide range of other comics contained significant amounts of chemistry . |
| 28 | We know from archaeology that Birka was at the northern end of a flourishing trade route which was beginning in the 830s and 840s to bring in huge quantities of silver from the Muslim-controlled trade routes between Byzantium and China . |
| 29 | ( All this action was at the furthest end from where Leeds fans were stood , so I could n't see much . |
| 30 | And the headmaster 's room was at the very end of that corridor where the fifth class was . |