Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness . |
| 2 | Maidstone turned and shouted towards the far end of the bar : ‘ Franco ! ’ |
| 3 | Her eyes peered towards the deep end , where Nails was holding his brother down and the lifeguard was getting worried . |
| 4 | During the night a couple of German shells crashed into the far end of the orchard near the road . |
| 5 | Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! " |
| 6 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 7 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 8 | Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net . |
| 9 | Henry wandered to the other end of the room . |
| 10 | While a few policemen tried to the bitter end to avoid conversation with the field-worker , sufficient rapport was established over time for the majority to talk quite openly to her about what are highly sensitive and controversial topics in a Northern Ireland context . |
| 11 | Finally the iron pin would be attached to the hinge fitting , pointed at the catch-plate and coiled at the other end to form a spring hinge . |
| 12 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 13 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 14 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 15 | The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl . |
| 16 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 17 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | The aunt gestured to the far end of the sun porch where one of her sons sat . |
| 19 | Courteously , he drove to the far end of the green and let Luke out by the church . |
| 20 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 21 | She nodded towards the far end of the table and then turned her back on them , pouring the milk into two big cauldrons by the fire . |
| 22 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 23 | Bertha almost bellowed from the other end . |
| 24 | One of the mares galloped to the far end of the field where she stopped and started to crop . |
| 25 | Of course , there are no witnesses to what happened at the other end of her journey . |
| 26 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
| 27 | A white sink shone at the far end , some sort of covered porcelain bucket underneath it . |
| 28 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 29 | The side corridor ran along the length of these three rooms , and opened at the other end of the car into a comfortable lounge , with settee , three armchairs , and tables . |
| 30 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |