Example sentences of "end [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A Pylian warship of the twelfth century BC is shown on a vase painting to have high ‘ castles ’ at each end connected by a raised gangway along the centre .
2 The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop .
3 In addition there are circulation routes at both ends of the space — at the north end provided by a fireproof staircase and walled corridor wings .
4 Slender , graceful , with either end encased in a rectangular metal box they looked perfectly innocuous .
5 This arises in part from the fact that it is a polar solvent ; that is , the covalently bonded H 2 O molecule has a positive charge at each end balanced by a negative charge in the middle .
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