Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 3 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 4 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 5 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |
| 6 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 7 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 8 | Clothes were pegged out on a line , nothing of his own . |
| 9 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 10 | Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region . |
| 11 | Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time . |
| 12 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 13 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 14 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
| 15 | The action had also electrified the crowd who were pressing in on the ring despite the best efforts of the khalifas to keep them all back . |
| 16 | Along London 's fast-flowing River Thames freighters and trampers were steaming in on every tide , and the jetties and berths echoed all day long with the sounds of wheeling cranes , dockers ' shouts and curses , and the chugging of busy tugs . |
| 17 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 18 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 19 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 20 | For a moment she was too surprised to speak and simply stared as if she were looking down on an apparition . |
| 21 | A hundred and twenty eight soldiers and civilian staff were moved out on the order of the base commander , some showing the signs of their ordeal . |
| 22 | And when it happened , you were passing by on the bus , tuning in to their moment from another reality , like switching through channels on late-night TV . |
| 23 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 24 | The strategies , and the weapons designed for them , that were acted out on the north German plains bore a marked resemblance to the actual experience of the second world war . |
| 25 | The bodies were washed up on a beach about four miles from where they are presumed to have been murdered . ’ |
| 26 | During January 1989 , for example , over 500 bottlenose dolphins were washed up on the Atlantic coast of France . |
| 27 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 28 | Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House . |
| 29 | A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy . |
| 30 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |