Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Henry wandered to the other end of the room . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 7 | The aunt gestured to the far end of the sun porch where one of her sons sat . |
| 8 | Courteously , he drove to the far end of the green and let Luke out by the church . |
| 9 | One of the mares galloped to the far end of the field where she stopped and started to crop . |
| 10 | She put the money in the till , walked to the other end of the bar , and began ostentatiously polishing glasses . |
| 11 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 12 | But then United broke to the other end and won a free kick a minute into injury time . |
| 13 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 14 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 15 | And when we got to the other end one of the lads actually walked in and did a waltz into the school with it which the kids thought was great . |
| 16 | Mr Bumble jumped to his feet and went to the other end of the room . |
| 17 | We were told what to do and then left , as the instructor went to the other end of the loch to shout instructions at a few stranded boats . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if you went to the other end of the scale and in that same season you looked at all horses that were offered at precisely two to one on , then you 'll find that there were twenty two horses which were offered at those odds and fifteen of them won . |
| 19 | Jack , who had been standing near his friend holding the torn halves of the sketch in either hand , went to the far end of the room and sat on the desk . |
| 20 | But the family simply shrugged and patted the air and went to the far end of the street , and moved into a cottage whose roof did not leak . |
| 21 | So I always say well I went backwards , I went to the dead end you know I think I ended up very low in the Co-op really you know er but erm |
| 22 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 23 | I went to the cracked end of the old slipway at the north end of the island . |
| 24 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 25 | Fairham looked to the far end of the infirmary . |
| 26 | ‘ Up the 'Ammers ! ’ they roared as they charged headlong and then half stumbled and half marched to the far end of the meadow . |
| 27 | As fast as the council ordered the arrest of one carrier , the story ran to the opposite end of the land and broke out afresh . |
| 28 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 29 | She hurried to the far end of the bay where the sun gazed from above the cliff with hot , friendly passion . |
| 30 | Then the Oxford prop Jones was warned for stamping , another penalty was awarded and Cambridge swept to the other end to seal the match with an opportunist try by Adrian Davies . |