Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj] end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right down the other end of the pipe , please , ’ said Gurder . |
| 2 | I think the only thing that 's holding him up is making up his mind whether to get married first , and have a wife sitting down the other end of the table . ’ |
| 3 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 4 | Lord Deverill was standing down the far end of the room , staring out of a window across the estate . |
| 5 | It was twilight and a brilliant new moon was gliding down the bright end of the sky , followed by a cascade of stars . |
| 6 | You know where I 've put you know down the bottom end of the garden , th that little bit of digging ? |
| 7 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 8 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 9 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 10 | Turn in the other end of the tape , leaving the cords free for pulling up . |
| 11 | To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast . |
| 12 | It is understood that Sock Shop directors were in the US yesterday trying to find someone who might be prepared to take over the American end of the operation and continue to run it under the Sock Shop name . |
| 13 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 14 | ‘ Players who whack someone when the play is up the other end of the field are cowards . |
| 15 | Remove the fitting and thoroughly clean up the two ends of pipe with wire wool , before smearing on flux and putting on a new fitting . |
| 16 | The rollers then engaged , and ran in the channels , lifting up the front end of the trailer . |
| 17 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 18 | The spring can then push up the treble end of the check , so that the middle of the check meets the underside of the gap — spacer . |
| 19 | While Venturous bottled up the seaward end of the Swale , Vigilant waited in the Medway near Sheerness for signs of the quarry . |
| 20 | Nothing remained but to tie up the loose ends of the dispute . |
| 21 | I had to show up again at Ingard House , and I also wanted to tidy up the loose ends of Miss Macdonald 's story of the dead man in the Thames . |
| 22 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 23 | Domain III ( residue 501 to the C terminus , residue 644 ) together with Domain I , makes up the bulky end of the wedge-shaped molecule . |
| 24 | This will help prevent freezing air blowing up the open ends of the waste pipes . |
| 25 | ‘ Let's go across the top of the hill and see them come out the other end of the tunnel , ’ Peter said to his sisters . |
| 26 | ICL has filled out the top end of its DRS 6000 range with new multiprocessing models 780 and 782 in the 700 series . |
| 27 | They also show that when people do not know either the APR or the total credit cost , they can not always sniff out the better-value end of the repayment period scale ( in terms of much lower APR ) simply from the level of the instalment payments offered . |
| 28 | Rather , children seemed to grasp the fact that some terms pick out the positive end of a dimension , and others the negative end , before they necessarily identify which terms belong together as pairs . |
| 29 | The purpose of this research project is to obtain presently lacking information on the way of life , social structure and ideology of a Bantu-speaking people called Lungu who live around the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in East-Central Africa . |