Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 2 | Some cargo is still carried on the waterways , although mainly on the broad canals and rivers . |
| 3 | It 's very nasty vapours and has got a fairly low flashpoint and is unfortunately carried on the motorways every day of the week . ’ |
| 4 | She may have done : it is surprising , and must have struck contemporaries as highly suspicious , that vengeance was not taken on the murderers . |
| 5 | But as I have said to you , the Banbury School 's decision to opt out was not taken on the grounds of the education offered in this county . |
| 6 | We got back home and everything was still hanging on the walls , but there was more missing from the store . |