Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] at [adj] end " in BNC.

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1 For older children , make goals at either end of the room out of chair legs and give the point to the first person to score .
2 It has barbicans at either end , and eight massive towers .
3 At Indianapolis , the neo-Romanesque station of 1888 contained a vast barrel-vaulted concourse with galleries , rose windows at each end , and elaborate tile-work .
4 It has handles at each end so that you will be able to move the whole thin , makes watering more effective , incorporates cane-supports , costs £19.95 and looks fine .
5 As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN .
6 I say to those below the Gangway that the debate takes place at this end of the Chamber .
7 Most beginners who follow the guidelines on filtration and stocking we will suggest in the second part of this article , will not have problems at this end .
8 At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right .
9 This finding suggests that primary gastric MALT lymphoma forms a continuum with well delineated entities at either end , which have a graded sequence of an increasing amount of large cells .
10 I stood on tip-toes to look round the hall ; a paper-plane battle seemed to be taking place at one end .
11 Whilst the umpires are counting bouncers at one end they could find themselves assessing ‘ pad play ’ at the other .
12 Soaps clean by having charged particles at either end of their molecules — one end ‘ grabs ’ dirt while the other ‘ grabs ’ water .
13 The main living area of the farmhouse was one large room , with a wooden staircase leading off it , and an expensively fitted kitchen at one end , separated by a peninsular unit , behind which Monique was bustling happily .
14 Screens were placed along the length of the hall dividing it into four aisles , leaving spaces at either end and a way through to the Law Courts , which at that time were on the west side of the hall .
15 Why the machine had levers at each end was a mystery never satisfactorily explained to the boys , but it created another alley in Grandad 's life , the alley between one machine and another , and though there were no U-boats shooting at him , it was hard going with his bad leg .
16 Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other .
17 On the left was a long wooden counter with weighing scales at one end and a large wicker basket filled with loaves of bread .
18 The first and last pictures contrast highly ordered motion at one end of the sequence with turbulent motion at the other end , and it is seen that there is a series of intermediate stages by which transition from one to the other takes place .
19 Some hangars have doors at each end and these make a good wind tunnel if both ends are opened at the same time .
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