Example sentences of "were [verb] at [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call . |
| 2 | Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 . |
| 3 | The platform steps were of the fixed type and roller blind destination boxes were mounted at each end above the upper deck rails . |
| 4 | Such a gradient would arise if a substance were synthesized at one end , or along one edge , of a region , and destroyed at the other . |
| 5 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |