Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us , male and female , will find a place somewhere between the two ends of that continuum . |
| 2 | And I would suggest sir that somewhere between the lower end of the figures cooked on my left here and the County Council 's figures . |
| 3 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 4 | So much for the perfect end to a perfect night , she thought resignedly as she walked up the path . |
| 5 | Because she , she goes in off the deep end and you |
| 6 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 7 | At the anterior end of the embryo where the brain will form the folds are well separated with a broad area between them , but the folds run close together towards the rear end . |
| 8 | Only towards the very end of the seventeenth century , as the new explanations of mechanistic science began to gain ground , did religion and magic begin significantly to diverge from each other . |
| 9 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 10 | Few 24-hour races ever go the full distance — fans usually burst on to the sacred tarmac 20 minutes or so before the official end |
| 11 | Stage 6 takes us to sealing in the dowels with stitches across the pockets , and the securing straps are added 9 1/2 in or 24cm down from the front end of the leading edge pocket . |
| 12 | A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end , ignoring the arrows and signs . |
| 13 | And that meant taking a trip down to the lower end of the Bayswater Road . |
| 14 | That would be the sensible thing , to remove that gate down to the far end |
| 15 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 16 | he just do n't like going down to the deep end |
| 17 | Interrogations of German prisoners-of-war captured in 1944 and 1945 on the western Front also revealed surprisingly high rates of continued trust in the Führer , almost down to the very end of the war . |
| 18 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 19 | He strung the Poles along to the very end in order to keep their enthusiasm for his cause and their manpower for his army . |
| 20 | Leeman plugged away with constant strikes and both his colleagues joined in on the 17th end when continued Brackley accuracy brought the game to a premature conclusion . |
| 21 | I have opted for a selection of Amazon Swords , Giant Vallis , Fountain plants , Twisted Vallis and Cryptocorynes , The Crypts will fare better at the dimmer end of the tank . |
| 22 | The main aim was to win new audiences and so there was always room for experiment , especially at the better end of the market . |
| 23 | This evidence is surprisingly extensive , especially at the western end of the site , though more excavation is essential to clarify its distribution . |
| 24 | I mean they , people er , the hairdresser 's for instance , they seemed to be there for evermore at the far end , towards I mean er , er , and then there was half way along on the other side and |
| 25 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 26 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 27 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 28 | He sat down at the far end of the table . |
| 29 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're lucky you 're up this end of the Cages with us because there 's … ’ and here he dropped his voice into a horrified whisper , ‘ … there 's a couple of vultures down at the other end . |