Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 31 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 32 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end . |
| 33 | ‘ I would n't want any child of mine to have to cope with being thrown in at the deep end like that . |
| 34 | Being in control of the finances of an organisation can pose a major headache for some people , especially if they are thrown in at the deep end with little or . |
| 35 | IN AT THE DEEP END : SPEAKING ACTIVITIES FOR PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE Oxford University Press |
| 36 | ‘ You must think I 'm an inconsiderate devil if you 're expecting to be thrown in at the deep end to struggle as best you can . ’ |
| 37 | The former kart champion has elected to skip Formula Ford and jump straight in at the deep end with Martin Donnelly 's team . |
| 38 | Kennedy , he said , had no previous conviction but in this , his first crime , he had clearly gone straight in at the deep end . |
| 39 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 40 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |
| 41 | Training will be given and wherever possible the new representative will be thrown in at the deep end . |
| 42 | Slow build up or in at the deep end ? |
| 43 | ‘ Talk about being thrown in at the deep end ! ’ |
| 44 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 45 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |
| 46 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 47 | So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again . |
| 48 | These days , it always seems to be in at the deep end for Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 49 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
| 50 | They 're thrown in at the deep end , and have to develop skills quickly . |
| 51 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
| 52 | ‘ I am being thrown in at the deep end against Blackburn and I am really looking forward to the game . ’ |
| 53 | Tom jumps in at the deep end |
| 54 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 55 | Not wanting to jump in at the deep end , I hired the school the day before and went with Karen , a friend who wanted to give her experienced but spooky horse an indoor schooling session . |
| 56 | In any case , the name of the game here seems to be performance-friendly and so you are immediately in at the sharp end with patch number 11 . |
| 57 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 58 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 59 | They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions . |
| 60 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |