Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 2 | The Provos , he claimed , had reserves of munitions and were determined to keep going , even though a debate of sorts was going on within the Republican movement . |
| 3 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 4 | Such a practice was frowned on by the church , and instructions were given to the warden of the building that if any young woman allowed a man to stay overnight then she was to be reported to the Mother Superior . |
| 5 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |
| 6 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 7 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 8 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 9 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 10 | The goat 's mask figure was lowered on to the chair . |
| 11 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 12 | A tricky wind was blowing on to the anchorage and what with snakes and the prospect of getting wet I lay off for lunch . |
| 13 | A buffet lunch was laid on for the advisers , a chicken leg , various meat-filled butties , an apple and a large Kit-Kat . |
| 14 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 15 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 16 | After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) . |
| 17 | Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion . |
| 18 | A free coach was laid on by the Sun bringing fans from London . |
| 19 | But the siege was to drag on into the summer of 1098 before the fortress finally capitulated and Rodrigo was able to enter in triumph and order Mass to be sung in one of the main squares . |
| 20 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 21 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 22 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 23 | Conquest was almost half full of water after the passage , but she was bailed out and motored carefully towards the NE corner of the island where the bow was run on to the shingle at the water 's edge . |
| 24 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | A rather odd concoction of wine , oil , salt and corn was sprinkled on to the house by Midlands , West & Wales director , Martin Smout who performed the ancient ‘ topping out ’ ceremony . |
| 26 | The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration . |
| 27 | Prague was chosen on as the site of the permanent secretariat of the CSCE . |
| 28 | The devotion of the people of Dijon to an obscure tomb in one of the cemetries outside the town was frowned on by the local bishop , Gregory of Langres , who regarded it as an act of pagan superstition . |
| 29 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 30 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |