Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 2 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 3 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 4 | Two large boulders were rolled on to the road and they sat down to wait , guns at the ready . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then , when her legs were lifted on to the couch , the croak turned into a stilted scream as she cried , ‘ No ! |
| 7 | We dropped anchor offshore , and passengers and baggage were off-loaded on to a barge . |
| 8 | Cargoes were off-loaded on to the stone docks , and again they caught the sharp pungency of unknown spices . |
| 9 | The airport control tower was built out from the roof of the house and several huts of varied design were built on to the ground floor as reception , customs and office areas . |
| 10 | It seems noteworthy that these patients were operated on before the advent of H 2 blocker treatment , and consequently the indication for surgery , in contrast with current practice , tended to be intractable symptoms more than teratment resistant oesophagitis . |
| 11 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 12 | Additional poems bearing individual dates were transcribed on to the endpapers of the British Library copy from a manuscript owned by Dixon 's niece , a Mrs Eliza ( née De Langle ) Bunce , possibly the child of an unidentified sister . |
| 13 | The story count is high — page three of the winning issue positively buzzed with 11 stories , and eight were crammed on to the back , which is as it should be in a conglomerate all about communication . |
| 14 | Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 , Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 and Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 were founded on by the claimant and Slater v. Burnley Corporation by the respondent . |
| 15 | that were tied on with a ribbon |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The ‘ brown paper bags ’ were dumped on to a table and the accounts prepared , sent to the client and signed off , very often without even meeting the client . |
| 18 | If all this were laid on with a trowel , the reader 's patience would quickly wear thin . |
| 19 | Data were entered on to a microcomputer with the database management system FOXPRO , and tabulations were produced with the statistical program SPSS . |
| 20 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 21 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 22 | And if we look at the implications er West Yorkshire which were touched on in the beginning of this part of the debate . |
| 23 | The discovery of more stable chemicals ( Table 3 ) — the true residual insecticides — which were sprayed on to the walls and roofs of dwellings and left a deposit that was lethal to mosquitoes resting on it for many weeks and even months , produced the ideal control that did not demand an impossibly high efficiency . |
| 24 | The trucks were shunted on to the company 's sidings , unloaded by the company 's employees , and loaded with the jam , made from fruit harvested locally and brought direct to the factory . |
| 25 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 26 | In order to cope with the enormous workload while he was away , extra staff were taken on into the Firm as the newcomers christened it . |
| 27 | The cupboards and drawers in the kitchen were emptied on to the floor . |
| 28 | There was a constant hissing when Zoecke was serving and coins were thrown on to the court . |
| 29 | Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts . |
| 30 | Standing in the Platz in her elegant coat and furs Erika was on the verge of tears : first the books were thrown on to the flames and then , in a terrible and inevitable sequence , human beings were put into the incinerators . |