Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] end [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 5 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 6 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 7 | A fountain system was uncovered at one end of the dining room , which gives onto the swimming pool , together with a room with a hot bath adjoining . |
| 8 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 9 | Lijphart 's ( 1968b ) typology of democratic systems classified liberal democratic systems along two dimensions — the extent of their social heterogeneity , ranging at one end of the continuum from homogeneous to fragmented at the other ; and the extent to which elite behaviour is collaborative or competitive . |
| 10 | At the 1843 Convention Haydon 's picture was hung at one end of the room ; above the chairman was a portrait of Clarkson and opposite it ‘ A Scene on the African Coast ’ . |
| 11 | At meal times the children would make a line and wait at one end of the room , where a table had been placed , there they would be given a helping of that day 's menu . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They begin at one end of the hall and finish at the other end , the North American steadily retreating , the South American relentlessly advancing . |
| 14 | The other is tapered at one end at the bottom , and it 's about the size of a tennis ball . |
| 15 | The elongated body of the scorpion is armed at one end with two powerful claws and at the other with a long tail terminating in a sting . |
| 16 | In this case , try feeding at one end of the tank and then , while the bolder fish are busy , feed the timid ones at the other end . |
| 17 | Children have to learn that it is easier to start at one end of a line of objects and finish at the other . |
| 18 | Consider the long tendon that attaches at one end to the muscle flexor digitorum profundus and at its other end to digit 3 . |
| 19 | The bolas spider spins a single filament which she weights at one end with a drop of glue . |
| 20 | He pulled out an empty pasta box sealed at one end with industrial adhesive tape . |
| 21 | Starting at one end of the wing , the elevator moves across the pile while it is continuously delivering the crop . |
| 22 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 23 | Independence of this type was probably exceptional , however , and among the small towns strip buildings are usually known to lie at one end of a narrow plot or yard . |
| 24 | I even managed to sneak a ride on the engine , changing at one end to the other , just going out , round and coming back on then . |
| 25 | Rodney was standing at one end of the table , a turquoise can in his hand . |
| 26 | Start at one end of the ship , making as much noise as possible . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The battery connections are reversed at one end of the circuit , so that each recorder can operate when the station is transmitting . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | George was sitting at one end of a vast empty dining table , with a little oasis of bottles , coffee pot and cheeseboard at his elbow . |