Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 2 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 3 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 4 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 5 | It was twilight and a brilliant new moon was gliding down the bright end of the sky , followed by a cascade of stars . |
| 6 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 7 | Stop up the other end , and bury the hose-pipe alongside the beans . |
| 8 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 9 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 10 | ( e ) Bend back the lower end and use the knife to lift a sliver of pith to reveal the swelling of the embryo bud . |
| 11 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 12 | We run down the other end and have a go at Sunderland fans … and like against Villa when they all got pushed onto the pitch … we 're all in there … |
| 13 | To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast . |
| 14 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 15 | I mean , the only way you could do that would be if you had a till at one end and people bought whatever they wanted and were given a voucher and you walked down the other end and exchanged |
| 16 | You know where I 've put you know down the bottom end of the garden , th that little bit of digging ? |
| 17 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 18 | It 'd be a brave person who would be against the Golf romping out the other end in front . |
| 19 | Face-to-face situations provide the context , objectives spell out the desirable end and behaviours are the means . |
| 20 | oh just shoving sheets of plate into a , a machine that comes down and it take , it goes out the other end and you put another one in all day long |
| 21 | ICL has filled out the top end of its DRS 6000 range with new multiprocessing models 780 and 782 in the 700 series . |
| 22 | Rather , children seemed to grasp the fact that some terms pick out the positive end of a dimension , and others the negative end , before they necessarily identify which terms belong together as pairs . |
| 23 | cutting down the other end . |
| 24 | Driven up the dead end and gone zonk , zonk , like that ! |
| 25 | They also show that when people do not know either the APR or the total credit cost , they can not always sniff out the better-value end of the repayment period scale ( in terms of much lower APR ) simply from the level of the instalment payments offered . |
| 26 | We can go down the bottom end this way |
| 27 | Turn in the other end of the tape , leaving the cords free for pulling up . |
| 28 | Go down the other end I expect . |
| 29 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 30 | Lord Deverill was standing down the far end of the room , staring out of a window across the estate . |