Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 2 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 3 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 4 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 5 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 6 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 7 | Were such a test to be adopted in future , it would reintroduce into British obscenity law a wholly subjective assessment of taste and decency with respect to works of art and public communications , and it would do so by amending an Act which was designed to focus solely on the question of harm . |
| 8 | Also , because of the absence of any significant physical evidence , the case against Noriega was expected to rely heavily on the testimony of self-confessed drug criminals who had reached plea bargaining arrangements with the US authorities in return for giving evidence . |
| 9 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 10 | It was said to dine exclusively on the bodies of hen-pecked husbands . |
| 11 | But now Watson was looking to win again on the US Tour . |
| 12 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 13 | But when I enquired about the location of the Waaf Site , I was told to climb back on the wagon . |
| 14 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 15 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 16 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 17 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 18 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 19 | Ken meanwhile was beginning to look down on a great deal of what he had been asked to do professionally . |
| 20 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 21 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 22 | Her mind was determined to dwell gloomily on the future . |