Example sentences of "[vb infin] to the [adj] end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I 'd run to the other end of the same streets , I was passing Jackie Onassis ’ front door and unbelievable opulence . |
| 2 | As it has been shown in the present study , the normal squamous columnar junction does not correspond to the distal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter , and it is located in the midportion of this sphincter , at a mean distance of 17 mm from its distal end measured by manometry . |
| 3 | His composure would vanish , his grey eyes would shift around the room and , muttering something about antibiotics , he would disappear to the other end of the room , where some hours later he would be discovered at some local worthy 's side , discussing parking problems at Waitrose with the quiet authority of a great physician . |
| 4 | On this day we would come to the other end of the running spectrum , to the fastest men and women on earth whose triumphs would depend upon mere hundredths of a second in the 100 metres . |
| 5 | 681 ( fig. 35 ) , a little earlier than these last ( which must belong to the very end of the century ) , is exceptional in being very large and in having the virtuosity deliberately played down , flattened out , in an attempt which could hardly be quite successful to monumentalise the type . |
| 6 | First , in the case of the ideal black hole we have been talking about , our spaceship and its crew might indeed travel to the far end of the Universe — but in the form of a spray of raw energy . |