Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] sharp end " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had suffered at the sharp end of the tongues of some of Dej 's more sophisticated barons ' wives in the 1950s and Dej 's favourite daughter did not respect her . |
| 2 | Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair . |
| 3 | Today Mr Clarke saw how the police operate at the sharp end . |
| 4 | For criminologists surely ‘ can never be successfully involved at the sharp end , or pointy end , dealing with angry men on the cold , hard streets ’ ( from fieldnotes ) . |
| 5 | I wanted to invite Virginia back to the unit to show her what these rationalisations will really mean at the sharp end . |
| 6 | To begin with , in the evenings and mornings , during stroll time ( the suit , the stick ) , all the people tended to gather at the sharp end of the ship , looking at where they came from , as people do . |
| 7 | Few would favour police officers being armed as a matter of routine , but work at the sharp end is undoubtedly becoming sharper . |
| 8 | Those working at the sharp end will be able to add from their own experience . |