Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun sg] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Group 4 — 65 men — were landing at the north end of the town , putting the defenders under pressure from two sides , while 30 men of Group 5 had landed from HMS Oribi at about 1000 hours . |
| 2 | Another innovation made in 1932 was a huge 45-minute clock which Chapman had installed at the north end of the ground so that players and spectators could see at a glance how much time was left for play . |
| 3 | The pulsar lies at the southeast end of the SNR shell and is seen as a point source with a mean continuum flux of 20.7mJy . |
| 4 | The gallery , now converted into the main building lies at the south end of the complex . |
| 5 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 6 | The path starts at the south end of the coast , at the car park just before the golf club on Cliff Road in Felixstowe . |
| 7 | The cause of Mr Hemingway 's ‘ uncharacteristic errors ’ — failing to see that the old wire was detached at the fuse end and insulated at the relay end — is attributed to the long hours he worked . |
| 8 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 10 | In most cases of the conversion of schools that incorporate this feature , the owners have wisely left space between the edge of the added floor and the window to give a mezzanine platform overlooking a ‘ double-height ’ living-room , as in the arrangement adopted at the west end of the main wing of Airton school . |
| 11 | One of only a handful of mixed freights which survived until closure of Woodhead was a late afternoon Tinsley-Dewsnap working , seen at the north end of Wadsley hauled by 76016/10 in May 1981 . |
| 12 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 13 | Sheehy said the 9% halftime dividend boost will be at least matched at the year end . |
| 14 | The licensed chemist property portfolio was valued at the year end by Chesterton . |
| 15 | On the way in , they paused by the grave of Eugen of Savoy , buried at the west end of the south aisle chapel . |
| 16 | Durham 's Ray Currie , drawn at the dam end , punched a groundbait feeder and maggot 60 yards out taking 16 specimens all of which had chunks missing and fungus growing following their close encounters with the scavenging birds which have taken up residence on the water . |
| 17 | Note that if the adventurers are with Bardul , they will emerge at the west end of passage 33 , as shown on Map 12 . |
| 18 | How we managed without all these aids — in fact by merely buying a coffin and getting on with it — I ca n't imagine , but I know that we were lucky to be living in the UK and not the US , where the open coffin , or at least one quarter open at the head end , is de rigueur . |
| 19 | The Map Library and remainder of the Science Library are housed at the east end of the College . |
| 20 | Fighting our way through a raging snowstorm , we arrived at the north end , by Costa Hill , and huddled in the car , astonished by the force of the blizzard . |
| 21 | A showroom was opened at the east end of Westminster bridge . |
| 22 | Charges are 2 ½%; management fee — this covers free tax reporting at the year end and quarterly valuation and investment reviews — and 6% as a front end charge . |
| 23 | Salisbury returned at the pavilion end : a stern test of nerve , even with immortality beckoning should success by his . |
| 24 | Then , when the danger has passed , it starts to turn itself slowly back to its normal posture , beginning at the head end . |
| 25 | Managing nicely seemed an odd thing to do at the north end of the Reach . |
| 26 | There is also the additional hazard that if the rope breaks at the towplane end , it may fall over the glider , causing damage . |
| 27 | The small bi-plane wobbled over the oaks and the elms , banked at the north end of the ha-ha and started to descend towards the huge lawn which ran , treeless along this side of the house between terrace and park . |
| 28 | If your strategy is to start at the starboard end of the line and carry on sailing on starboard tack , the situation is as illustrated in Diagram 1 . |
| 29 | If you have decided not only to start at the starboard end , but also to tack onto port as soon as possible , then a different set of priorities apply . |
| 30 | Many of these have tall towers , sometimes with spires , generally set at the west end . |