Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oracle UK has developed a front end customer service system for Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio Ltd 's Cellnet mobile phone users : it runs on Hewlett-Packard Co Unix systems but will take two years to implement across the firm 's sites . |
| 2 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 3 | MIDDLESBROUGH skipper Alan Kernaghan has suffered a cruel end to his best-ever season . |
| 4 | There 's a , one of them little it 's probably meant to be that colour , one of them little clay coloured things has got a black end on it there but er |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work . |
| 6 | ‘ He has got the wrong end of the stick , ’ said Coun Smailes last night . |
| 7 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 8 | In some ways the German experiment has proved a dead end , a numbing rather than illuminating experience . |
| 9 | ‘ These two cases , then , make it perfectly clear that when he is sued , as in the present case , on the covenants contained in the original lease , the original tenant 's only possible defences are either : ( 1 ) that he has performed the covenants ; or ( 2 ) that the relevant assignee has performed the covenants ; or ( 3 ) there has been some other operation conducted upon the lease — for example surrender of the whole — which has put a complete end to the liability to pay rent . |
| 10 | He 's got the wrong end of the stick — do n't worry , I 'll put it right . |
| 11 | Now she 's had a peaceful end and she 's gone to her reward . ’ |
| 12 | Up at Pusey and it 's had a rear end smash . |