Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at the [noun sg] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously . |
| 2 | Begun as a Romanesque basilica in 1200 , it was completed at the west end in Gothic style about 1350 . |
| 3 | The cause of Mr Hemingway 's ‘ uncharacteristic errors ’ — failing to see that the old wire was detached at the fuse end and insulated at the relay end — is attributed to the long hours he worked . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 5 | A showroom was opened at the east end of Westminster bridge . |
| 6 | The licensed chemist property portfolio was valued at the year end by Chesterton . |
| 7 | However , the connection was lost at the tug end , so the lifeboat moved away to allow the tug right up to the casualty 's bow where the lifeboat crew secured the tow wire , after Second Coxswain Davies had started the donkey engine in the fo'c'sle . |