Example sentences of "on [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held on to the other end , it went underneath him . |
| 2 | Then I realized he was n't stopping outside Sunil 's house , but carrying on to the other end of the road . |
| 3 | Fortunately one of the good points about losing the seven stroke nine business is that Pauline transferred some of the stock of that seven stroke nine bearing on to the other end . |
| 4 | Then when he wanted it to go again he used to get the th the belt , the leather belt , and er sort of hook it on to the lower end of the cast iron pulley and follow it round until it went on . |
| 5 | And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination . |
| 6 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 7 | ‘ And I 'll carry it on to the bitter end if that 's what it takes ! ’ |
| 8 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 9 | Luxuriating in the warm midmorning sun on her shoulders , she walked under the lattice archway and on to the bottom end of the garden . |
| 10 | ‘ The Renegades ’ from Dundalk certainly held on to the very end . |
| 11 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 12 | And putting coals on at the far end . |
| 13 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 14 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 15 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 16 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |