Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [num] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men sleep together at one end of the dwelling , on a raised ledge covered with more clean straw which , of course , must be brought with them . |
| 2 | In a cavity between it and the central part of the body , most species have gills which are continually bathed by a current of oxygen-bearing water , sucked in at one end of the cavity and expelled at the other . |
| 3 | MGM 's studio at Borehamwood , on the northwest edge of London and just along the road from Elstree , was made by Kubrick to accommodate a space station interior over 300 feet ( 90m ) long , sloping up at one end nearly 40 feet ( 12m ) . |
| 4 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 6 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 7 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 8 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |
| 9 | In the basic form ( shown in rows ( b ) and ( c ) of Figure 2.2 ) , zeros are shifted in at one end while bits are lost at the other ; in the second form ( called rotate or circular shift ) bits shifted out of one end of the pattern are shifted in at the other . |
| 10 | If a pitch was turning more at one end than the other , we would offer it to Tuffers to enhance his chances of getting wickets to push his Test claims . |
| 11 | Three men huddle uncomfortably at one end of the table . |
| 12 | With three blocks removed , it was just the right length for riding on at one end and off at the other . |
| 13 | Other schools pigeon-hole you , something on the timetable grid , fed in at one end and popping out a set number of years later , certified . |
| 14 | She curls up at one end , leaving plenty of room . |
| 15 | I crawled out into the alley and it was one of those blind alleys , y'know , blocked off at one end , so I had no way out . |
| 16 | Terminals need to be tight if good contact is to be maintained , abut if they are very tight they may distort or even break if they are pulled up at one end to remove them . |
| 17 | But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ . |
| 18 | I help him ; we lift the rusting grating up at one end but the far side is still secured by an iron pin and we ca n't shift it any further . |
| 19 | Valuable metal , plastic , cardboard , rubber , energy go in at one end ; Trabant cars worth less than the sum of these parts emerge at the other . |
| 20 | For resonance forced vibration measurements a sample in the form of a thin strip is clamped firmly at one end leaving the other end free . |
| 21 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 22 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 23 | Erm it 's a simple flow system , raw material comes in at one end and flows through the plant , through the machining areas , through the assembly , and the new product , the finished product comes out the end . |
| 24 | A boy , Astyanax , runs away at one end , looking back as his mother Andromache heaves a great pestle to club a Greek who has struck a Trojan down . |
| 25 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 26 | And just check out what they 're making for the weekend bash : a 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , a 16ft wide mini ramp [ 4ft tall ] , tons of street stuff with fun boxes , handrails and suchlike , and also a massive vert ramp which will be 32ft wide , 10ft transitions and 1 ½ foot of vert , and what 's more this will be bowled out at one end like Vision 's indoor ramp . |