Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We dropped anchor offshore , and passengers and baggage were off-loaded on to a barge . |
| 2 | that were tied on with a ribbon |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If all this were laid on with a trowel , the reader 's patience would quickly wear thin . |
| 5 | Data were entered on to a microcomputer with the database management system FOXPRO , and tabulations were produced with the statistical program SPSS . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ In this way ’ he declared in 1895 , ‘ they would do a thousand times more good than by denouncing Roman Catholics , Unitarians or anyone else. , There were united missionary services and neighbourhood ‘ visitations ’ after which the names of those visited were passed on to a minister of their denomination . |
| 8 | Both the boys and the videos were passed on to a network of men which included school teachers and youth workers in Birmingham , Stoke on Trent , Holland and Belgium . |
| 9 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 10 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 11 | After a struggle with the wind we managed to get the meadow looking neat and tidy , tables were loaded on to a dumper and the villagers made for home with their booty . |