Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The towns were generally laid out on the northern side of the tracks . |
| 2 | The consequence was that intransigent positions were soon staked out on the correct modes of biblical interpretation . |
| 3 | Emergency grain deliveries from Syria and the USA were reportedly held up on the Turkish border . |
| 4 | The cost that they were having to bear were greater than what they were actually getting back on the sale of this stuff . |
| 5 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 6 | The fire was finally put out on the morning of 12 October . |
| 7 | He was evidently very well educated , and he was just turned out on the road , and I do n't know where he is now . |
| 8 | The train rumbled nearer , Ian was still jigging about on the parapet , he could see the smoke box lamp flickering , then as the train was almost on the bridge the smoke enveloped the structure as Ian was doing his Highland jig ; he suddenly lost his balance and fell down onto the smoke box frame , the force of the fall did its lethal work and killed Ian Watson . |
| 9 | Salome 's hospital number was still pinned up on the noticeboard alongside the little red book where we are supposed to log our calls . |
| 10 | Further work was also carried out on the International City Project , a long-term perspective for the development of Glasgow which has attracted interest from the highest levels in Government . |
| 11 | ( At the same time , though its existence was naturally concealed from the rank-and-file , a ‘ Line of Panic ’ was also drawn up on the inner circle of forts , Belleville , Souville , Tavannes and Moulainville . |
| 12 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 13 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 14 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 15 | He was here checking up on the search for Terry Place . |
| 16 | I was pleased to be sitting here with a strong drink , pleased that I was n't staked out on the basement floor , playing the romantic lead in a snuff movie . |
| 17 | I think Mao was quite keyed up on the whole situation , I think he realized that to win the war they had to erm adjust the mass support very carefully , and I think that 's basically what this I think that 's why two months later they er they er gave up this document cos he was worried then they 'd lose the middle peasants ' support . |
| 18 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
| 19 | After 28 minutes , he was rashly fouled out on the left by Lee . |