Example sentences of "down [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 2 | Stage 6 takes us to sealing in the dowels with stitches across the pockets , and the securing straps are added 9 1/2 in or 24cm down from the front end of the leading edge pocket . |
| 3 | And that meant taking a trip down to the lower end of the Bayswater Road . |
| 4 | That would be the sensible thing , to remove that gate down to the far end |
| 5 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 6 | he just do n't like going down to the deep end |
| 7 | Interrogations of German prisoners-of-war captured in 1944 and 1945 on the western Front also revealed surprisingly high rates of continued trust in the Führer , almost down to the very end of the war . |
| 8 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 9 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 10 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 11 | He sat down at the far end of the table . |
| 12 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're lucky you 're up this end of the Cages with us because there 's … ’ and here he dropped his voice into a horrified whisper , ‘ … there 's a couple of vultures down at the other end . |
| 14 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |