Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the far end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It smelled of shellfish , newsprint , disinfectant — and the lime-encrusted urinal at the far end . |
| 2 | On the left a door with a frosted glass panel in it led into Tom Watt 's office , a long narrow north-facing room with a tall sash-window at the far end . |
| 3 | The lavatory at the far end of the yard , Victorine told the puzzled children : was the only one in the house when it was first built . |
| 4 | Instinctively she headed for the fence at the far end , wanting to be as far away from the house as possible . |
| 5 | He had emerged into another pool of dim light at the far end of the corridor . |
| 6 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 7 | He led her through an archway at the far end of the hall . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a moment he thought he saw a figure at the far end , waiting , but that was from the nightmare , too , just a trick of the light and the fog . |
| 10 | A tiny , round , mahogany dining-table stood by the window at the far end of the room snatching cold , white light from the space outside . |
| 11 | The only other furniture was an enormous wooden tapestry frame with a small chair in front of it , set up in the recess of the tiny bay window at the far end of the room . |
| 12 | The one on the left was half open , revealing a narrow kitchen , little more than a passage with a sink and draining board under a window at the far end , a cooker , refrigerator , a small table and a wooden chair on one side and on the other a laminated work-surface with cupboards and drawers below and a run of shelves above . |
| 13 | When they went in Marc was standing at the high-arched window at the far end of a long refectory made sepulchral by huge arching beams of dark oak . |
| 14 | Just as we were engaged in these sotto voce instructions , Eliot himself was perceived to walk across a passage at the far end of the flat . |
| 15 | At last she found the exit at the far end of the enormous shed , and burst out into a dark courtyard , littered with the hulks of abandoned machinery , which she remembered from the morning . |
| 16 | Quickly he went to the wall safe at the far end of the room and touched the combination . |
| 17 | Musicians played quietly on tambour , rebec and lute in the minstrel gallery at the far end of the hall , accompanied by a group of beautiful young boys all dressed in silver and gold who softly sang some troubadour 's lay . |
| 18 | Someone laid a spear or a piece of wood at the top of the steps whilst the hospitaller was at his usual place at the far end of the parapet walk , near Salt Tower . ’ |
| 19 | One of the most famous enabled you to look right down a spitting Pipeline barrel through the snake 's eye at the far end towards the mountains in the distance . |
| 20 | Best of all , a kingfisher , black against the red sun , alighted on a post at the far end . |
| 21 | By midday the weather had improved , and with the help of the spectators the Vimy was pushed to the starting point at the far end of the field . |
| 22 | But at the outset Alf Jacobson installed his home-made 500 watt transmitter at the far end of the one long room and constructed an announcer 's desk with double turn-tables . |
| 23 | Considering his almost round physique he showed an astonishing turn of speed , his little legs pistoning , and he did not pause till he disappeared into the shop at the far end of the village . |
| 24 | Hare and dog disappeared into the scrub at the far end of the field . |
| 25 | It took them most of the day and , in the evening , they picked up their basketloads of red meat and carried them back to the security and acceptance of their own Untouchable community at the far end of the village . |
| 26 | ‘ Shall we adjourn to your office ? ’ he suggested , meaning a poky room at the far end of the mill . |
| 27 | They watched him shoulder his way jovially through the dancers towards the door of the committee room at the far end of the social room . |
| 28 | There was another MP sitting on a chair outside the room at the far end where the passage ran into a blank wall . |
| 29 | To collect the takings , er from the vending machine you have to go through the adjacent community room into a small box room at the far end . |
| 30 | LEFT Piazza Belgioioso with the Palazzo to the right and Casa Manzoni at the far end |