Example sentences of "up the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stop up the other end , and bury the hose-pipe alongside the beans . |
| 2 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 3 | One umpire was up the other end , the other was too busy controlling his refractory pony to watch what Randy was up to . |
| 4 | ‘ Players who whack someone when the play is up the other end of the field are cowards . |
| 5 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 6 | The rollers then engaged , and ran in the channels , lifting up the front end of the trailer . |
| 7 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't believe these ropes , ’ said Steve , as I cambered up the free end . |
| 9 | The spring can then push up the treble end of the check , so that the middle of the check meets the underside of the gap — spacer . |
| 10 | While Venturous bottled up the seaward end of the Swale , Vigilant waited in the Medway near Sheerness for signs of the quarry . |
| 11 | So it means it 's not Ah so it means it 's got to be up the top end . |
| 12 | Driven up the dead end and gone zonk , zonk , like that ! |
| 13 | Domain III ( residue 501 to the C terminus , residue 644 ) together with Domain I , makes up the bulky end of the wedge-shaped molecule . |