Example sentences of "[v-ing] [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 | It was twilight and a brilliant new moon was gliding down the bright end of the sky , followed by a cascade of stars . |
| 3 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 7 | It 'd be a brave person who would be against the Golf romping out the other end in front . |
| 8 | cutting down the other end . |
| 9 | This will help prevent freezing air blowing up the open ends of the waste pipes . |
| 10 | The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office . |
| 11 | Lord Deverill was standing down the far end of the room , staring out of a window across the estate . |
| 12 | I think the only thing that 's holding him up is making up his mind whether to get married first , and have a wife sitting down the other end of the table . ’ |
| 13 | The rollers then engaged , and ran in the channels , lifting up the front end of the trailer . |