Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 2 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 3 | At less exalted levels of society , economies had to be made ; often many subjects were crammed on to a single plate . |
| 4 | The tide was up , so people , flaked out on their towels or sprawled in striped deckchairs , were jammed on to a little strip of beach . |
| 5 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 6 | One was doomed when a bucket of coal was tipped on to a blazing fire and the flames eroded the dust covering , ate at the brittle papier-mâché , flickered at the softness of the plastic bag . |
| 7 | The patient was moved on to a life-support machine and another set of X-rays was ordered in case the first ones had not revealed internal injuries caused by the car accident . |
| 8 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 9 | The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems . |
| 10 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |
| 11 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |
| 12 | It took three days to reach the town of Clujnapoca , where the generator was loaded on to a romanian aid wagon for the final stage of the journey . |
| 13 | The mined slate was loaded on to a wooden sledge called a ‘ trail-barrow ’ . |