Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] far [noun sg] " 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 | Without a word Alexander Vass rose to his feet and crossed to a small desk at the far side of the room . |
| 16 | A crash behind her made her turn and she saw the enraged old man had hurled his soup dish at the far wall where it hit the pretty paper and ran in thin trickles down onto the pale-grey carpet . |
| 17 | They ate in the banqueting hall at the farthest end of the table from the motionless Calatin . |
| 18 | Externally the most dominating part of the Duomo is the façade , although technically the best is the apse at the furthest end of the Square , which is best seen from either Corso Vittorio Emanuele II or the Piazza Fontana . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Quickly he went to the wall safe at the far end of the room and touched the combination . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Best of all , a kingfisher , black against the red sun , alighted on a post at the far end . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was just before mid-day when Lewis braked sedately outside the Downes 's residence at the furthest end of Lonsdale Road . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Hare and dog disappeared into the scrub at the far end of the field . |
| 30 | 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 . |