Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richards also had the benefit of solid support at the other end as Haynes steadily made his way to 184 , the highest West Indian innings at Lord 's , and with Lloyd chipping in a fifty the total reached 518 . |
| 2 | It was difficult for Charity to make sense of the emotional jumble at the other end . |
| 3 | A British filly at the other end of her career earlier captured another prize for the visitors . |
| 4 | A wheezing cough at the other end of the line told Kelly that it was Bob Morrow . |
| 5 | If by any chance , you have still not encountered the fax machine , then its basic function is easily described : the fax transceiver plugs into a standard telephone socket , scans the document fed into it and then transmits the result electronically to a similar machine at the other end of the line where a facsimile document is printed out . |
| 6 | ‘ Police , miss , ’ said a businesslike male voice at the other end . |
| 7 | An agitated businessman at the other end of the line complained that a water pipe was leaking in his hotel room . |
| 8 | The big white building at the other side of the er , pedestrian crossing . |
| 9 | The twin solutions to equation ( 9.15 ) of equal positive and negative phase shifts correspond to the possibility of feeding a signal in at either end of the symmetric section and loading it with its characteristic impedance at the other end . |
| 10 | Despite this , however , one 's gaze is drawn to the huge black false eye at the other end of the body . |
| 11 | ‘ There is not an answering service at the other end of the line . |
| 12 | Maggie was looking at the corporal standing at the other side of the counter as she said , ‘ Sorry , no sandwiches left ; only wads , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It needs a human hand at the other end . ’ |
| 14 | The buildings were empty except for the occasional orderly and the Assistant Commissioner at the other end of the corridor , and sometimes Nikos working late , and he was able to get a lot of work done . |
| 15 | Going along the roads , er it , it gets a bit boring after a while cycling on tarmac and it 's , once you come off you have a good laugh at the other person , you know , it makes it a bit , life more , a bit more adventurous , you know . |
| 16 | ‘ The number you have dialled no longer exists , ’ intoned a resultant voice at the other end . |
| 17 | There was no mistaking the deep voice at the other end . |
| 18 | Although no pyramid has been found with its original contents present , the recent exploration of a narrow passageway within the Great Pyramid built for the pharaoh Cheops has led archaeologists to hope for an undisturbed chamber at the other end . |
| 19 | There is a long silence at the other end of the phone . |
| 20 | Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year . |
| 21 | They did , it was true , have an agitated fit of booing and hissing , but this was , M. Grimaud explained , an expression of spontaneous disapproval of Picasso who could just be made out , small brown face under black beret at the other side of the arena . |
| 22 | To which the friendly woman at the other end remarked , ‘ Cara would kill me for telling you , but she 'll be twenty-nine in August . |
| 23 | Hope then built a beautiful shrine at the other end of the village . |
| 24 | Hope then built a beautiful shrine at the other end of the village . |
| 25 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 26 | A crisp , no-nonsense voice at the other end announces ‘ But Out ! ’ |
| 27 | Halfway uptown , after a setback caused by a reminiscent cheekbone at the other end of the bus , I got a seat between a Chinaman and a Puerto Rican woman . |
| 28 | The clinic and the cottage hospital were up a small hill at the other end of Main Street , beyond the ship 's chandler and the jetty where the Mantela was moored . |
| 29 | A small islet at the other end of the loch is supposed to have been a prison . |
| 30 | A mild uproar at the other end of the bar told me without looking that Bunny , the Mother Christmasses and the rest of the band had arrived and had walked into the middle of the darts match . |