Example sentences of "[vb base] at the [noun sg] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Where the cliffs resume at the south end of the bay , a remarkable pillar of rock , Am Buachaille ( the herdsman ) rises vertically from the sea in isolation . |
| 3 | Talk at the conversation end of the cline is difficult to mould to any overall structure like that proposed by Sinclair and Coulthard . |
| 4 | I always start at the fillet end and work towards the knuckle . |
| 5 | If you need to tack quickly , then once again , start at the starboard end , or at least to starboard of the main bunch of yachts . |
| 6 | It has been paralleled by a similar increase in Langstone Harbour in Hampshire , which is only separated from Chichester Harbour by Hayling Island ; in fact , the two harbours join at the north end of Hayling . |
| 7 | There was a Gilbertine priory here ( the only purely English monastic order ) , traces of which survive at the south end of the village . |
| 8 | Work at the north end of Normangate Field in 1974–5 dated the allotments here to the earlier second century at least , thereby suggesting that land closer to the town centre must have been surveyed and allotted at this time or even earlier . |
| 9 | A take away and caff at the South end of the main street near sign posts in miles and furlongs , also unique in our experience it serves the finest battered cod we can ever recall eating . |