Example sentences of "down the [adj] end [prep] " 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 . |