Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being instructed on the circuit , racing lines , warning flags , etc , the condemned men were given a hearty meal . |
| 2 | After being hit on the head with a bottle , Waller lashed out at Terry Malone , 24 , with a chisel . |
| 3 | New Zealand saved the follow-on after Nancy Williams defied doctor 's orders and resumed batting after being hit on the head by a fielder 's return . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , later in the same year , some months after being hit on the head by a piece of falling masonry , Geoffrey of Vigeois died , and without his chronicle to guide us we are hopelessly ignorant of events in this part of the world . |
| 5 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 6 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding rallied after being headed on the flat by Rio Haina in that two-and-three-quarter-mile event , and judged on that game performance , should not be unduly troubled by today 's extra two furlongs . |
| 7 | George Heron , 23 , had to have four stitches after being slashed on the forehead by an inmate in Durham jail . |
| 8 | A post-mortem revealed it had bled to death after being slashed on the udder with a sharp instrument , severing a main artery . |
| 9 | Islands around the world have often hosted odd dwarf forms of mainland creatures : pony-sized elephants once lived on Malta ; and it was reported by Adrian Lester of Cambridge University , in a recent Nature article , that red deer from the last Ice Age evolved into a dwarf form in less than 6000 years after being marooned on the island of Jersey . |
| 10 | Marine fishkeeper Ian Durnall , from Wolverhampton , was flown to hospital after being stung on the finger by his pet Lionfish reports the Daily Mirror . |
| 11 | The extent of the Guinness world conquest can be imagined from a letter sent home to Ireland by an Enniskillen Dragoon recovering in Belgium after being wounded on the battlefield of Waterloo in 1815 . |
| 12 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 13 | After being smacked on the head with a baseball bat ( wielded by Steve ) for a couple of hours , I remembered how to do it . |
| 14 | Five of eight houses offered for sale at Sanquhar Den in Forres , near Inverness , were snapped up within days of being placed on the market . |
| 15 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 16 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 17 | Giant vistas of haunting guitar strum looms out of the speakers and the feeling of being lost on the moon is hard to shrug off . |
| 18 | Similarly , Gnosticism was opposed to orthodox Christianity by its hostility to history , for instead of being based on the idea that God prepares for the future by way of the past it regarded the world as one from which God was absent . |
| 19 | The short judgments proceed on the simple ground that the sheriff was not entitled to retain sums which he had no legal right to demand , but the sums were demanded in return for the rendering of a service , namely the issuing of warrants , so the case is capable of being rationalised on the basis that they were exacted colore officii , a concept which emerged more clearly in later cases . |
| 20 | Even if , as a servant of the Gorengs , I could likely avoid punishment , there was a real risk of being shot on the spot by some itchy-fingered malai . |
| 21 | They would have had to know where Alex 's gun was in the Green Room , they would have had to run the risk of being observed on the O.P. side of the stage when they committed the murder … |
| 22 | After a period of being grounded on the Shag Rocks , it has now confounded weather experts by drifting west , directly towards the Falklands . |
| 23 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 24 | They hurried across the plateau , afraid of being caught on the forest path after dark , glad that the wind was behind them , billowing out their skirts and propelling them forward on legs that ran involuntarily . |
| 25 | Lots of girls married in haste and repented at leisure then because they were afraid of being left on the shelf . |
| 26 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 27 | About a month later the buyer had the clutch repaired at a cost of £45 and claimed this sum from the seller , alleging that the car was not of merchantable quality and not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |
| 28 | It was held that the fact the engine seized up after only three weeks was evidence that at the time of the sale the car was not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |
| 29 | Some observers were surprised that , despite being pressed on the issue , Roh gave no indication that he was preparing to support Kim Young Sam as his successor . |
| 30 | In addition , all new publications are designed for creation on the system — a subtle distinction from being designed on the system . |