Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The youngsters each could carry one end of a staff with two hives swinging in thick bags in the centre , while Ruari carried a second pole with a skep slung at each end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 6 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 7 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 8 | It was like a chain , with Leconte and Forget at one end . |
| 9 | Enthusiasts aged 11 and over can be introduced to Superghosts , in which letters can be added at either end of the word . |
| 10 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 11 | drip at one end . |
| 12 | Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When the best signal is obtained , the optical fibre could be secured at each end using PVC tape . |
| 17 | There are two forms of logical shift , which differ in what happens at each end of the binary pattern . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 20 | Bevan favoured Barnes 's route ; it was shorter , cheaper and , despite the lock climbs at each end , less complicated than Telford 's . |
| 21 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 22 | But what we had in mind in looking at this through the the local plan was that er we 'd be looking at specific end users to see what the benefits were of those those end users and to assess those benefits against any environmental harm that there would be and strategy as a whole . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Essentially the string galvanometer consisted of a coil of copper wire , connected at either end to two electrodes , and string hanging down within the coil to which was attached a small magnetized mirror . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the 19th century this design was replaced by a convex sauce-boat with a ring handle on the lid , scroll handles at each end and standing in four feet . |
| 26 | It 's a geodesic shape with two longer poles running diagonally across the frame of the tent and two shorter poles arched at either end . |
| 27 | At the 1843 Convention Haydon 's picture was hung at one end of the room ; above the chairman was a portrait of Clarkson and opposite it ‘ A Scene on the African Coast ’ . |
| 28 | The UN closed Sarajevo airport , a vital aid lifeline for the Bosnian capital 's 380,000 population , after shells exploded at either end of the runway during fighting yesterday . |
| 29 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 30 | Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 . |