Example sentences of "went to the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bumble jumped to his feet and went to the other end of the room . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I went to the cracked end of the old slipway at the north end of the island . |