Example sentences of "was [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 2 | Schwantz , winner of 19 Grands Prix in a fruitless search for the world title , was joined on the front row by fellow American Wayne Rainey , bidding for a fourth successive crown , and Australian prospect Daryl Beattie . |
| 3 | The Test match at Old Trafford , which had been packed with stirring deeds , was plunged on the fourth evening into hideous disarray . |
| 4 | The fifth , a woman , was remanded on the same charge yesterday .. |
| 5 | The Regional Council was consulted on the previous supermarket application and may be consulted by the District Council on the present proposal , although this is not certain as I believe it is about half the size of the earlier application . |
| 6 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 7 | A further official assurance was given on the total number of troops , but the public preferred to believe its own eyes . |
| 8 | His dramatic evidence was given on the fourth day of the trial of his former common-law wife Shiela Stroud , 32 , and her lover Mark Evans , 31 . |
| 9 | Tritsch Tratsch was given on the same programme , being hailed with delight for its humour and for the sparkling dancing of Poole and Luyt as ‘ two brisk young sailors , and Renée Feller as the sprightly object of their affections ’ . |
| 10 | The highest , Park Mill , was situated on the lowest lake , but now remains in name alone ; however , the other two mills , farther down the valley , fared somewhat better . |
| 11 | It was situated on the flat ground at the head of Faetten Fjord near to the spot where the Tirpitz was moored . |
| 12 | He suffered , however , from severe seasickness and in 1885 he was placed on the retired list . |
| 13 | As a result of these , too great a blame for dioxin contamination was placed on the chemical industry . |
| 14 | Her bed was placed on the great dining table , where her wedding cake had been , and she lay there , covered with a white sheet , half conscious . |
| 15 | At the outset of a partnership that was to lead to great success , Allison was placed on the front line of the band 's paranoid attitude to outside influence . |
| 16 | In 1769 the Golden Madonna , unofficial symbol of the city , was placed on the highest spire of the Duomo . |
| 17 | Too much emphasis was placed on the necessary function of actually producing an annual programme to which different parties can agree and that identifies the full list of projects seeking funding . |
| 18 | In 1815 he was placed on the reserve list and returned to Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Much emphasis was placed on the raffish past , with roll-calls of distinguished libertines . |
| 20 | After the induction of anaesthesia with sodium pentobarbital ( 50 mg/kg ) , a cerebroventricular guide was placed on the superior aspect of the skull to allow injection into the lateral ventricle as previously described . |
| 21 | This defect was ingeniously got over by developing a hardener which could be painted by itself on to one half of the joint while the glue was painted on the other half , nothing began to happen in the glue until the two halves were brought together . |
| 22 | ‘ Shit ’ was painted on the next flagstone . |
| 23 | It was not until 1978 that a feasibility study was undertaken on the possible application of a Company Personnel System . |
| 24 | His tongue flicked out to caress her nipple , which was throbbing painfully , and with one anguished movement she pressed his mouth further down so that he was sucking on the rosy tip . |
| 25 | After a few weeks newspapers lifted their ban on match reports , and while the war was waged on the front page , the struggle for League points gathered pace on the back . |
| 26 | The girl was walking on the other side of the pavement . |
| 27 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 28 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 29 | It ran into the back of this motorway maintenance vehicle that was parked on the hard shoulder and er just burst into flames but how they can say they died instantly I do n't know . |
| 30 | Both in their 70s , they continue to serve life sentences imposed in connection with an abortive coup in that year which was blamed on the Communist Party of Indonesia ( PKI ) . |