Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
5 | The fire was finally put out on the morning of 12 October . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Salome 's hospital number was still pinned up on the noticeboard alongside the little red book where we are supposed to log our calls . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ( 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 . |
10 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
15 | After 28 minutes , he was rashly fouled out on the left by Lee . |