Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crates of fruit and vegetables were stacked at the other end . |
| 2 | The beliefs about the financial gains from the monarchy were described as being almost fully formulated justifications , as if they were situated towards the explicit end but were not yet fully explicit . |
| 3 | A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall . |
| 4 | Charles Laubscher , who remembers : ‘ We were flying across the southern end of the island when Control came on the air with the warning that two bogeys were in our area . |
| 5 | so therefore then your doors were connected by hinges to the keel and from the keel to the cones , that 's where your door was , so that 'd swing on the keel and then your chains were fixed to the other end of the door and you hauled that up on your cones . |
| 6 | Two men were standing at the further end of the clearing shooting at a wand . |
| 7 | Several hundred dryads were clustered at the other end of the hall . |
| 8 | Some seals are cylindrical , and in the earliest period , from 2500 BC onwards , the designs were carved on the flat end , not on the curve as in Syrian and Mesopotamian seals . |
| 9 | Only the hide-covered penthouse was occupied , and the three men in that were jammed at the opposite end , craning to watch the brilliant theatre ; the exchange at the gates upon which their survival depended . |
| 10 | Jehana 's mare was stopped at the far end of it , and Alexei was at her side . |
| 11 | It was situated at the far end of the house , above the sweet store room . |
| 12 | The piano was situated at the far end of the drawing-room . |
| 13 | After the initial canullation and passage of a guide wire , a 7 F double pigtail polyethylene endoproshesis was placed with the proximal end above the stones and the distal end in the duodenum . |
| 14 | Overnight I was posted to the other end of the country and the war seemed to recede , but the need for bomber replacement became more urgent . |
| 15 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 16 | The Audi Quattro was parked at the far end of the small , packed car-park . |
| 17 | When you sort out your notes , Sergeant , you might include in them the additional information that my car was parked at the other end of Boundary Drive , the end furthest away from Glenfair Road , see ? |
| 18 | The receiver was lifted at the other end . |
| 19 | Auguste 's agonised shout was addressed to the rear end of a gentleman , whose head was in an oven apparently examining a goose at close quarters . |
| 20 | Mr. Lorrimer 's voice , frail and querulous , was bleating at the other end . |
| 21 | A , No treatment ; B , the petiole of the cotyledon was chilled as described in Fig. 1 legend , but no further treatment was applied ; C , the petiole of the cotyledon was chilled as in B , and the cotyledon was then excised ; D , the petiole of the cotyledon was chilled as in B , a mechanical wound was applied to the distal end of the cotyledon ( see Table 1 legend ) , and the cotyledon excised 5min after wounding ; E , the petiole of the cotyledon was chilled as in B , a mechanical wound was applied as in D , but the cotyledon was not then excised . |
| 22 | At the outset of the trial death was accepted as the major end point of the study whether caused by variceal harmorrhage or other causes . |
| 23 | It was answered at the other end after the first ring by a friendly , but formal , female voice . |
| 24 | All became clear when the jeep was unloaded at the other end . |
| 25 | As it was on such a steep gradient , a large basement was built under the rear end to give a level floor for the tracks . |
| 26 | I had heard that light from distant galaxies was shifted toward the red end of the spectrum and this was supposed to indicate that the universe was expanding . |
| 27 | ‘ At that time Whitedown Road was known as the posh end of town , ’ chuckled Leslie . |
| 28 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 29 | This latter measurement was taken from the distal end of the sphincter up to the respiratory inversion point , which is the level at which the end expiratory pressure changes from a positive to a negative deflection . |
| 30 | A fourth gang had meanwhile laid a narrow bogey line downhill from the woods to the workings and soon a steady flow of timber , all cut to lengths , was arriving at the lower end . |