Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other actors were instructed to bring on the score . |
| 2 | Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives . |
| 3 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 4 | When he was invited to switch on the Christmas lights in Settle , he needed a police escort because of a bomb threat believed to be from workers at a local quarry . |
| 5 | The turning-point in his fortunes came in October 1861 , when he was asked to take on the printing and publishing of the Union newspaper , which was trying to bring Tractarian Anglicans into touch with Roman Catholics . |