Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the day-to-day trade came from the man in the street , and it would be wrong to infer that every coffin-maker and funeral furnisher hungered after catering for the top end of the market . |
| 2 | These were part of a mental/aural test designed for the upper end of the target attainment range and success rates for the lowest band are thus not available . |
| 3 | Though originally designed for the other end of the alimentary canal , it was ideal for my purposes ; it was virtually unbreakable and gave accurate readings in half the time of an ordinary clinical thermometer . |
| 4 | A slight ‘ upstand ’ at one end of the roof ensures that the water will not fall off the wrong end . |
| 5 | The borough council already looks after the eastern end of the ruined priory which was the first Augustinian monastery . |
| 6 | It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness . |
| 7 | Maidstone turned and shouted towards the far end of the bar : ‘ Franco ! ’ |
| 8 | Her eyes peered towards the deep end , where Nails was holding his brother down and the lifeguard was getting worried . |
| 9 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 10 | Jimmy Airlie , chief union negotiator at the company , said : ‘ It looks like the thin end of the wedge . ’ |
| 11 | During the night a couple of German shells crashed into the far end of the orchard near the road . |
| 12 | The sun beating down on them and the children splashing and laughing in the shallow end . |
| 13 | Over the years the number of grade Vs has quadrupled , with much over-crowding in the top end . |
| 14 | Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! " |
| 15 | The stress distribution in a glued joint is very far from uniform and , in a typical joint , such as Figure 1 , virtually the whole of the load is carried in the extreme ends or edges of the joint . |
| 16 | Hasan loved to stand in the shallow end , splashing his face and chest with the warm water , his face liked to the lights in the roof . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 18 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah , though I take the wings of morning and fly to the uttermost ends of the sea , yet thou art with me . ’ |
| 20 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 21 | Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net . |
| 22 | Henry wandered to the other end of the room . |
| 23 | The crackly voice on the other end sounded deeply grateful . |
| 24 | At the present time most of the alterations affecting the spit are confined to the southern end , where it is weakest . |
| 25 | Cut a small wedge from cake trimmings and attach to the bottom end of the lid half . |
| 26 | While a few policemen tried to the bitter end to avoid conversation with the field-worker , sufficient rapport was established over time for the majority to talk quite openly to her about what are highly sensitive and controversial topics in a Northern Ireland context . |
| 27 | Auguste 's agonised shout was addressed to the rear end of a gentleman , whose head was in an oven apparently examining a goose at close quarters . |
| 28 | Like Hutton in bygone times , Stewart seemed galvanised by the disasters occurring at the other end , but was never either intimidated into strokelessness or tempted into a reckless rescue bid , for such an endeavour against this bowling would have been futile . |
| 29 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 30 | Mr. Lorrimer 's voice , frail and querulous , was bleating at the other end . |