Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [num] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | They need to be 3 feet ( 1 metre ) long and with a sharp point fashioned at one end . |
| 9 | The other is tapered at one end at the bottom , and it 's about the size of a tennis ball . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | all damaged at one end and I , you know , erm thought I 'd cut that away |
| 12 | Pillows banked at one end , and wooden posts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He pulled out an empty pasta box sealed at one end with industrial adhesive tape . |
| 17 | The Princesse presided at one end , while Thomas had been placed as guest of honour at the other . |
| 18 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 19 | To illustrate the point further , some bridges are fixed at one end , but rest upon rollers at the opposite end , to allow for expansion . |
| 20 | The specimen is firmly fixed at one end and the other end is clamped to a disc , with a large moment of inertia , which can move freely . |
| 21 | Carve one half so that it is mounded at one end and tapering at the other , to form the lid ( see illustration ) . |
| 22 | This bar is clamped at one end and the other end is then broken off by means of a heavy hammer in the form of a pendulum . |
| 23 | The constitutional authorities see a transmission of orders from the many to the controlling few in the government whereby votes inserted at one end of the system become popular public policies and laws at the other . |
| 24 | The battery connections are reversed at one end of the circuit , so that each recorder can operate when the station is transmitting . |
| 25 | The square law of force means that both alternating and direct currents are registered but there is an essentially square-law scale which is cramped at one end . |
| 26 | Carefully snip into the paper along its length , to form a row of thin strands joined at one end . |
| 27 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 28 | Such a gradient would arise if a substance were synthesized at one end , or along one edge , of a region , and destroyed at the other . |
| 29 | It may be possible to prepare the pit with a sloping bottom so that deeper holes can be dug at one end , leading to comparisons being made . |
| 30 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |