Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 2 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 3 | MIDDLESBROUGH skipper Alan Kernaghan has suffered a cruel end to his best-ever season . |
| 4 | ‘ No , you 've got the wrong end of the stick entirely . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ People who think the song is about ecstasy have got the wrong end of the stick . ’ |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work . |
| 7 | So so I I I think Mr Mayor that although this debate has erm raised people 's erm eye a little , I do believe that most of the people here have got the wrong end of the stick in what was being proposed right . |
| 8 | He 's got the wrong end of the stick — do n't worry , I 'll put it right . |
| 9 | ‘ He has got the wrong end of the stick , ’ said Coun Smailes last night . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got the short end of the stick , ’ he says with a wink . |
| 11 | I 've got the light end again here . |
| 12 | There 's a , one of them little it 's probably meant to be that colour , one of them little clay coloured things has got a black end on it there but er |
| 13 | Up at Pusey and it 's had a rear end smash . |
| 14 | Now she 's had a peaceful end and she 's gone to her reward . ’ |
| 15 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |
| 16 | Oracle UK has developed a front end customer service system for Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio Ltd 's Cellnet mobile phone users : it runs on Hewlett-Packard Co Unix systems but will take two years to implement across the firm 's sites . |
| 17 | And then after they had reached the other end , erm one of the men would go and stand in the middle of the two and the and the other sitting down . |
| 18 | At this point Francis must have had about 20 seconds to live , a few more steps and he would have reached the other end which , for him , was the threshold of death . |
| 19 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 20 | Christabel says , ‘ And if he regretted his armoury of spines and his quick wild wits , history does not relate , for we must go no further , having reached the happy end . ’ |
| 21 | With , until recently , so many ‘ deals ’ being done , agency work had become the high-profile end of surveying practice . |
| 22 | Much as she liked him , much as she would miss his companionship , it seemed to her that the relationship had reached a dead end . |
| 23 | In 1018 the English paid the very large sum of £82,500 , and came to an agreement with the Danes at Oxford which may have marked the formal end of hostilities ; the same year part of Cnut 's fleet sailed to Denmark . |
| 24 | From here the path is grassy and it is an easy walk to the ruins of Dunseverick Castle , which in prehistoric times marked the northern end of Ireland 's oldest road , from where the Celts crossed to and from Scotland . |
| 25 | In some ways the German experiment has proved a dead end , a numbing rather than illuminating experience . |
| 26 | The appointment of Fareed , 40 , a Tajik and the nominee of the Hezb-i-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar , marked an apparent end to a two-month boycott of the government by mujaheddin forces loyal to Hekmatyar . |
| 27 | But before these matters could be considered the court had to address an argument for the Crown which , if it had succeeded , would have brought an immediate end to the matter . |
| 28 | Many quite fluent Dyirbal speakers simply represented a dead end in that their intuitions could not be accessed . |
| 29 | It looked on Saturday as if they had declared a premature end to the season , in any case . |
| 30 | ‘ These two cases , then , make it perfectly clear that when he is sued , as in the present case , on the covenants contained in the original lease , the original tenant 's only possible defences are either : ( 1 ) that he has performed the covenants ; or ( 2 ) that the relevant assignee has performed the covenants ; or ( 3 ) there has been some other operation conducted upon the lease — for example surrender of the whole — which has put a complete end to the liability to pay rent . |