Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 2 | Such a practice was frowned on by the church , and instructions were given to the warden of the building that if any young woman allowed a man to stay overnight then she was to be reported to the Mother Superior . |
| 3 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |
| 4 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 5 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 6 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 7 | The goat 's mask figure was lowered on to the chair . |
| 8 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 9 | A tricky wind was blowing on to the anchorage and what with snakes and the prospect of getting wet I lay off for lunch . |
| 10 | Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair . |
| 11 | A buffet lunch was laid on for the advisers , a chicken leg , various meat-filled butties , an apple and a large Kit-Kat . |
| 12 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 13 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 14 | After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) . |
| 15 | Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion . |
| 16 | A free coach was laid on by the Sun bringing fans from London . |
| 17 | But the siege was to drag on into the summer of 1098 before the fortress finally capitulated and Rodrigo was able to enter in triumph and order Mass to be sung in one of the main squares . |
| 18 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 19 | Conquest was almost half full of water after the passage , but she was bailed out and motored carefully towards the NE corner of the island where the bow was run on to the shingle at the water 's edge . |
| 20 | A rather odd concoction of wine , oil , salt and corn was sprinkled on to the house by Midlands , West & Wales director , Martin Smout who performed the ancient ‘ topping out ’ ceremony . |
| 21 | The devotion of the people of Dijon to an obscure tomb in one of the cemetries outside the town was frowned on by the local bishop , Gregory of Langres , who regarded it as an act of pagan superstition . |
| 22 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |
| 23 | Although the wool producers seem to have borne part of the tax costs , the substantial increase in cloth production during the war is most easily explicable if a large part of the wool tax was passed on by the exporters to the foreign buyers , while the English cloth manufacturers were able to undercut their Continental rivals ( 88 , pp.39–40 ) . |
| 24 | This hi-tech theme was carried on with the Starstream XII which featured a semi-acoustic Teardrop body , built in tuner , distortion , treble and bass boost , percussion and a hand operated wah-wah device . |
| 25 | Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day . |
| 26 | Benjamin and I watched as Waldegrave 's corpse was hoisted on to the sheet . |
| 27 | Documentation was passed on to the Director of Public Prosecutions but Prime minister John Major indicated in the House of Commons on May 19 that the government would take no further action , while the US Defence Department stated on May 19 that it considered the case closed . |
| 28 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 29 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 30 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |