Example sentences of "went [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat on arguing for three hours while Ella went into the other end of the house and sang quietly to the baby and wee Alex came home filthy from playing and sat drowsily beside the fire , chewing at the bones of the fowl . |
| 2 | Mr Bumble jumped to his feet and went to the other end of the room . |
| 3 | We were told what to do and then left , as the instructor went to the other end of the loch to shout instructions at a few stranded boats . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if you went to the other end of the scale and in that same season you looked at all horses that were offered at precisely two to one on , then you 'll find that there were twenty two horses which were offered at those odds and fifteen of them won . |
| 5 | Jack , who had been standing near his friend holding the torn halves of the sketch in either hand , went to the far end of the room and sat on the desk . |
| 6 | But the family simply shrugged and patted the air and went to the far end of the street , and moved into a cottage whose roof did not leak . |
| 7 | So I always say well I went backwards , I went to the dead end you know I think I ended up very low in the Co-op really you know er but erm |
| 8 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 9 | I went to the cracked end of the old slipway at the north end of the island . |