Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | Enthusiasts aged 11 and over can be introduced to Superghosts , in which letters can be added at either end of the word . |
| 4 | Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the best signal is obtained , the optical fibre could be secured at each end using PVC tape . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 . |
| 15 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 16 | There is also more overlapping , of a kind which insists on the notion of depth : a despairing woman on the far side of the statue from which the lesser Ajax is about to drag Cassandra to rape her ; hidden faces ( Priam 's and Aeneas 's — he is shown at one end , escaping with his father and son ) . |
| 17 | They need to be 3 feet ( 1 metre ) long and with a sharp point fashioned at one end . |
| 18 | Single poles are used at either end to convert the Tube into a high profile bivi tent . |
| 19 | Seesaws should be properly cushioned at each end — tyres are ideal . |
| 20 | The other is tapered at one end at the bottom , and it 's about the size of a tennis ball . |
| 21 | The elongated body of the scorpion is armed at one end with two powerful claws and at the other with a long tail terminating in a sting . |
| 22 | The boot comprised a squared box covered in thick leather bound at each end with iron , measuring about two and a half feet in length and four inches square at the ends . |
| 23 | The platform steps were of the fixed type and roller blind destination boxes were mounted at each end above the upper deck rails . |
| 24 | all damaged at one end and I , you know , erm thought I 'd cut that away |
| 25 | Pillows banked at one end , and wooden posts . |
| 26 | Its plan is both innovative , in being an early example of the three rooms deep triple-pile , and retardataire in retaining the off-centre hall , entered at one end . |
| 27 | In simpler creatures , granules of it are distributed evenly throughout the egg ; in a frog 's egg , it is concentrated at one end ; and in a bird 's egg it initially fills the greater part of the shell . |
| 28 | Built around two , 200-metre-long concrete pontoons , it is linked at one end and has a floating gate at the other which closes when a submarine is inside . |
| 29 | Advertisements may be found at either end of a book , but occur much more often at the back . |
| 30 | He pulled out an empty pasta box sealed at one end with industrial adhesive tape . |