Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [num] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You know they mean it , too : a huge second cooling fan sits at one end of the processor card . |
| 3 | The Princesse presided at one end , while Thomas had been placed as guest of honour at the other . |
| 4 | The raw material , glass fibre , is drawn from bobbins held at one end of the long pultrusion machine . |
| 5 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 6 | They need to be 3 feet ( 1 metre ) long and with a sharp point fashioned at one end . |
| 7 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 8 | The T'ang and his father sat at one end of the long , darkwood table , facing each other , while Ben sat alone at the other end . |
| 9 | The woman , tight-lipped , turned her back on them and began to slap the milk vigorously with a peeled wand spiked at one end where smaller branches had been lopped off . |
| 10 | Carefully snip into the paper along its length , to form a row of thin strands joined at one end . |
| 11 | The Magician lived at one end of Puddle Lane , and the foot was the Magician 's foot . |
| 12 | The village green was oval shaped , with the road entering at one end and houses along one side , with a large chateau , a farm and a row of houses on the other side . |
| 13 | There was nothing obviously wrong — Albert sitting at one end of the table in front of his books and Hepzibah making an apple pie at the other , pressing the pastry top with a fork to make a frill round the edge — but it was as if a light had gone out . |
| 14 | A fine tower with stepped windows stood at one end . |
| 15 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 16 | In deciding whether police services are ‘ special ’ the court will take into account : ( 1 ) whether the officers are required to attend on private premises or in a public place ; ( 2 ) whether violence has already occurred or is imminent — if so , the services can not be ‘ special ’ ; ( 3 ) the nature of the event — public events like elections lie at one end of the spectrum , private events like weddings at the other , and events like football matches somewhere in the middle ; ( 4 ) whether protection can be provided without using officers who would otherwise be on other duties or off duty . |
| 17 | It takes the form of two parallel fluorescent tubes bridged at one end . |
| 18 | He pulled out an empty pasta box sealed at one end with industrial adhesive tape . |
| 19 | DNA S1 probes were end labelled at one end with T4 polynucleotide kinase ( Boehringer Mannheim ) and γ 32 p-ATP ( 3000 cu/mmole , New England Nuclear ) or fill-in with reverse transcriptase ( Super RT , Anglia-Biotec ) and the appropriate α 32 p-labelled deoxynucleotide triphosphate ( 6000 ci/mmole , New England Nuclear ) . |
| 20 | Pillows banked at one end , and wooden posts . |
| 21 | A 150 mm cut off length of 25 mm vanadium steel hacksaw blade sharpened at one end and wrapped in PVC insulating tape at the other makes a very useful scraper . |
| 22 | A warder stood at one end of the infirmary , standing by a thick metal door . |
| 23 | In the original fertilized egg , for instance , certain chemicals congregate at one end of the cell , others at the other end . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |