Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all aquatic plants with floating leaves dislike turbulent water or a continuous fine spray on their foliage , so any moving-water feature that is envisaged should be considered for one end of the pool and out of the direct line of choice plants like waterlilies . |
| 2 | Welsh concludes that the neutral-free gas tunnel to Beta Canis Majoris is at least 1000 light years long , with the Sun located near one end . |
| 3 | A pair of ½in holes drilled in one end of the box accommodate the push rods completes the basic box . |
| 4 | Plastic knitting needles were scrounged and a series of holes slightly smaller than the needles were drilled in one end of an 8″ length of 4″ diameter pipe . |
| 5 | The DNA molecule uncoils from one end , the opposite strands separate , the bonds between opposite bases break , and the free nucleotides find their opposite nucleotide on each strand . |
| 6 | Instead of the single , level playing-field for financial services that the Community talks of , the field will indeed be single but still sloping from one end to the other . |
| 7 | Erm or people attending the blues , walking from one end to the other . |
| 8 | There were two large vegetable dishes with lids on in the centre of the table and , beyond them , on an oval plate , was a roasted chicken , brown and shiny with stuffing oozing from one end . |
| 9 | A Medieval campanile has been added to one end of the Mausoleum and a Choir at the other . |
| 10 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 11 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 12 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 13 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 14 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 15 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 16 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 17 | It was like a chain , with Leconte and Forget at one end . |
| 18 | drip at one end . |
| 19 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 20 | A piece of elastic is wound around one end ; a banger strip is pulled through and the whole lot is stuck down . |
| 21 | There is room inside the wall for horsemen and infantry to march from one end of the town to the other … |
| 22 | These can then be moved from one end of the string to the other . |
| 23 | The match started and the men watched intently as play moved from one end of the field to the other . |
| 24 | The conveyor is moved from one end to the other keeping the load as level as possible while we top up the hold . |
| 25 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 26 | He sat at a large desk covered with papers , journals , medical books , a portable typewriter pushed to one end . |
| 27 | A fountain system was uncovered at one end of the dining room , which gives onto the swimming pool , together with a room with a hot bath adjoining . |
| 28 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 29 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 30 | Lijphart 's ( 1968b ) typology of democratic systems classified liberal democratic systems along two dimensions — the extent of their social heterogeneity , ranging at one end of the continuum from homogeneous to fragmented at the other ; and the extent to which elite behaviour is collaborative or competitive . |