Example sentences of "on the end [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sit on the end of a bench , holding the barbell with hands 15cm ( 6in ) apart . |
| 2 | On the half-hour he got on the end of a short pass from Vialli on the edge of the penalty area and hit a fine shot that brought an equally fine save from Pumpido . |
| 3 | The fall of Mrs Thatcher seems to leave Britain 's neo-conservative think-tanks out on the end of a creaking branch . |
| 4 | He kebabs his victim on the end of a spike and then turns it round and round over the flames . |
| 5 | First I tried a thick square of foam on the end of a sweeping rod ; then a large wire hook and a garden net ; then , in desperation , a cluster of S hooks on an octopus-style luggage elastic . |
| 6 | His heavily built wife showed me my room and soon I was on the end of a bench in the small dark restaurant , supping soup with the few day-trippers ; listening to their stories . |
| 7 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 8 | In the porch of a wooden shack a small boy dangled a land crab on the end of a makeshift fishing rod ; it clawed the air , defensive and gaudy . |
| 9 | Presently , her worried look changed to a broad smile as a hook on the end of a fishing line was lowered past my window . |
| 10 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 11 | It comprises two parallel rows of council houses tacked on the end of a neat little avenue of ‘ Nash ’ houses build just after the war . |
| 12 | Of course there has traditionally always been the kind of individual that will view any large feature in the landscape as something to jump off , slide down or swing from on the end of a piece of elastic . |
| 13 | His sheer aggression on the end of a line makes him , too , one of my favourite species . |
| 14 | I played him by the light of the moon until he was sufficiently exhausted to be manoeuvred into a bucket on the end of a stout rope . |
| 15 | Go on any Earth Mysteries trip to an ancient site and it is highly likely that you will see at least one person walking holding wire rods or holding a weight on the end of a piece of string . |
| 16 | The pendulum consists of a weight on the end of a piece of string , thread or chain usually a few inches long . |
| 17 | When the two girls left the smithy , Gay was carrying the wooden board — a rough affair that was all that could be obtained — and Breeze was leading on the end of a knotted string a small and ill-favoured specimen of doghood . |
| 18 | Neither , if you value your privacy and security , should you buy or rent a house on the end of a road where the public pavement runs alongside your house and garden . |
| 19 | Practice with ‘ sticks ’ ( miniature kites on the end of a I metre ( 39in ) dowel ) forms a good start for understanding both the figures and the jargon which has developed to describe the shapes . |
| 20 | Most cows are kept in small sheds on terraced land and are taken out for weekly walks on the end of a rope . |
| 21 | Slicing a few large pieces of bread , he put one on the end of a long fork . |
| 22 | Miss Julie Goodyear , the earring enriched tragedienne , was once taken to a ‘ pub on the end of a dog lead ’ ; and that |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a great comfort to me , knowing that I 'm on the end of a phone , should either of my children be taken ill , ’ says Elaine , 34 , a part-time marketing consultant and mother of two girls under four . |
| 24 | But 12 minutes later he got on the end of a superb cross from Paul Dalton . |
| 25 | In the 73rd minute Philliskirk netted as he got on the end of a cross from Boro substitute Bobby Barnes . |
| 26 | There was no mistaking it : bright red , like a little cherry , on the end of a long white stalk and swaying gently in the breeze . |
| 27 | The Saints ' offside trap , infuriating when it works and potentially costly when it fails , let in Kiwomya on the end of a cross by Whitton . |
| 28 | ‘ The hammer ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ is actually a ruddy great cannon-ball on the end of a long bit of wire , and the thrower whisks it round and round his or her head faster and faster and then lets it go . |
| 29 | It really was a quite extraordinary sight to see this giant Headmistress dangling the small boy high in the air and the boy spinning and twisting like something on the end of a string and shrieking his head off . |
| 30 | It 's like being a very little fish on the end of a very long line . ’ |