Example sentences of "at [art] [adj] end [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 2 | Beinn Alligin is the third of the great Torridon giants and more amenable than its fellows , and more honest , the whole effort of climbing to the summit ridge , traversing it and descending at the far end to return down the corrie being assessed at a glance , although probably under-estimated . |
| 3 | The the horse-drawn lorries going to the different curing stations where the gutter girls stood at the far end dressed in their oilskin aprons ready to start the day 's work . |
| 4 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
| 5 | He opened a cupboard at the far end to reveal a dartboard . |
| 6 | The common-room was large and comfortably furnished and at the far end included pool tables , dartboards and table tennis . |
| 7 | The door at the far end opened and a girl in a similar serving-wench dress but of silk and with a richly embroidered apron came in carrying a small cardboard box . |
| 8 | He put the light on , and the four inmates at the far end set up their whickering and pawing at the prospect of food , as usual . |
| 9 | At first it looked like a perfectly routine maintenance operation but as a precaution those in the tunnel were evacuated and the heavy steel doors at the eastern end barred and locked . |
| 10 | A simple path descends into the crater at the western end to reveal the place of debouchure of Great Douk Cave , a stream emerging in a small waterfall : a picture for the camera . |
| 11 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 12 | I , of course , at the sharp end felt but a slight tremor and my concern was with the loss of lateral control and my instrument panel disintegrating in front of me . |
| 13 | Casualty doctors who 're at the sharp end see the evidence that speeding is deadly . |
| 14 | ‘ The teachers , the social workers and the carers who deliver the services at the sharp end need the overbearing weight of the county bureaucracy lifted from their shoulders . ’ |
| 15 | Flexible working is an added opportunity to provide even more refinement by allowing staff at the sharp end to make their own judgements about staffing levels on a day-to-day basis . |
| 16 | ‘ You must think I 'm an inconsiderate devil if you 're expecting to be thrown in at the deep end to struggle as best you can . ’ |
| 17 | At one end fast-medium bowler Hill-Wood vigorously shone the ball on his trousers , only to see Ian Peebles at the other end undo his work by rubbing the shine away in the dust . |
| 18 | but Hans Segers at the other end had a busier first half as United piled forward … |
| 19 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | Finally the iron pin would be attached to the hinge fitting , pointed at the catch-plate and coiled at the other end to form a spring hinge . |
| 21 | The voice at the other end warmed . |
| 22 | She would hold the end of the twine while he walked away from her backwards across the freshly dug earth , unwinding the ball of twine slowly and deliberately , crouching at the other end to peg it into the earth , then coming back to stake her end too . |
| 23 | A crisp , no-nonsense voice at the other end announces ‘ But Out ! ’ |
| 24 | The railway company 's coat of arms is on the western portal of local stone , while a plaque at the other end records the name of the engineer who built it , Josiah Jessop . |
| 25 | To which the friendly woman at the other end remarked , ‘ Cara would kill me for telling you , but she 'll be twenty-nine in August . |
| 26 | Second ball of the next over , the bloke at the other end called for a single . |
| 27 | The decoder at the other end converts the sequence of beeps back into a code which identifies the caller . |
| 28 | Then pinch a small shot on the line at the other end to stop the slug from sliding up the line . |
| 29 | And you 're doing your utmost at the other end straining , trying even harder and harder , the harder you try often the worse it gets . |
| 30 | The sergeant at the other end said grimly that the bloke was quite thick enough to do just that , so due precautions would be taken . |