Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] the [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | York skyline painted on to the car by artist Paula MacArthur . |
| 2 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 3 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 4 | After Eduard Abazi had a shot pushed on to the bar by Wright , Raklli finally broke through with just seconds remaining to earn the home side a deserved consolation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a 20-minute battle against what he described as ‘ the roughest seas I have ever seen at Redcar ’ , he and the unconscious youth were flung on to the beach by the waves . |
| 7 | Brothers Jan and Roger Rowe have changed their farming policy because of TB which was , they think , brought on to the farm by badgers and then picked up by grazing dairy cows . |
| 8 | This time , however , data is entered on to the graphs by first indicating each point in turn ( on the plan view of PARTA ) by means of a digitized point . |
| 9 | Part of the lessor 's cashflow benefit from the consequent reductions in his tax bill is passed on to the lessee by way of lower rentals , reducing the lessee 's effective finance cost . |
| 10 | The tenant may wish to avoid responsibility for structural or inherent defects , ie the rectification of faults in the design or construction of a building which may otherwise be passed on to the tenant by virtue of the general effect of a tenant 's covenant to repair . |
| 11 | Fascinating though they are , thoughts of Classic confrontations to come were put on to the back-burner by another dazzling performance from Zilzal , who stamped himself as one of the outstanding milers of recent years with a thrashing of the French champion , Polish Precedent . |
| 12 | Their night was summed up when , shortly after replacing Rocastle , Rod Wallace saw a close-range effort chipped on to the post by Goram . |
| 13 | In use , the pack is held on to the tool by a single metal strap , but the pack is recessed so far into the machine that this was perfectly stable . |
| 14 | An average ant colony might use around 12 different types of signal , most of them conveyed by means of chemical ‘ pheromones ’ secreted on to the ground by various glands and then sniffed in the air by other ants . |