Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 6 | Of course , there are no witnesses to what happened at the other end of her journey . |
| 7 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
| 8 | A white sink shone at the far end , some sort of covered porcelain bucket underneath it . |
| 9 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The frogs did as Sergeant advised , and discovered at the far end of the garden , near the brick wall , a fine shady place among a cluster of mossy rocks . |
| 12 | On his way into Spain in 76 BC , Pompey annexed the valley of the river Garonne , which forms the main axis of Comminges , and four years later , on his way back from Spain , he founded at the northern end of it the city of Lugdunum Convenarum , where Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges stands today . |
| 13 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |
| 14 | Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end . |
| 15 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 16 | She chewed at the spiky end of a plait and kicked at a kitchen chair-leg . |
| 17 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 18 | As he emerged at the other end he was aware of a frightful , blinding , stunning pain in his head , and then nothing . |
| 19 | An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar . |
| 20 | A large man and a small boy appeared at the other end of the platform : she hobbled on her heels , humping her heavy suitcase , towards them . |
| 21 | At eleven o'clock the big Volvo appeared at the far end of the hangar and drove slowly towards him , coming to a stop with its engine running forty feet away . |
| 22 | He had just reached the box when a man on a bicycle appeared at the far end of the street . |
| 23 | Moments later an official appeared at the far end of the corridor and hurried to him . |
| 24 | ‘ Indeed … ’ began Wu Shih , then stopped , turning as his Chancellor appeared at the far end of the gallery . |
| 25 | The Trap somehow appeared at the easiest end of the HVS graded list ; it should be at the top ! |
| 26 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 27 | Later , as bronze was replaced by iron , the Golasecca culture arose at the southern end of Lake Maggiore . |
| 28 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 29 | Grom 's tribe was the Broken Axe , a tribe of Goblins that lived at the eastern end of Mad Dog Pass . |
| 30 | Who lived at the top end of our street |