Example sentences of "were [verb] at the [adj] end " in BNC.

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1 Crates of fruit and vegetables were stacked at the other end .
2 A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall .
3 Two men were standing at the further end of the clearing shooting at a wand .
4 Several hundred dryads were clustered at the other end of the hall .
5 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 .
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