Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | My predecessor planned to borrow the thick end of £100 billion in the next three years . |
| 2 | AS IT was about to send back its first results , the Science and Engineering Research Council tried to stop the northern end of its funding — the Hipparcos data is being monitored independently by two European teams to ensure accuracy . |
| 3 | Sikes quickly tied the rope around the chimney , then began to tie the other end around himself , ready to lower himself to the ground behind the house . |
| 4 | Two small fists appeared gripping the far end of the long handle , and Sam Kettle 's grimy muzzle thrust itself into the room . |
| 5 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 6 | With , until recently , so many ‘ deals ’ being done , agency work had become the high-profile end of surveying practice . |
| 7 | And then after they had reached the other end , erm one of the men would go and stand in the middle of the two and the and the other sitting down . |
| 8 | The paramilitaries felt , quite rightly as it turned out , that the politicians would use them when it suited them and then reject them once the threat of anarchy had achieved the desired end of bringing down Brian Faulkner . |