Example sentences of "was [verb] on [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Jimbo can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past , and how he loved it as the crowd roared at every winning shot and then sang Happy Birthday as a giant cake was rolled on to court for him afterwards . |
| 2 | His work on Linear B was carried on with flair by John Chadwick ( b.1920 ) . |
| 3 | One group ( n= 14 ) was operated on with resection of the oxyntic gland area of the stomach ( fundectomy ) . |
| 4 | The restoration of relations with Senegal was agreed on in principle at a meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the two countries in Bissau ( Guinea-Bissau ) on July 18 . |
| 5 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 6 | It was you , after all , who was going on at breakfast about the perils of lapses in concentration . ’ |
| 7 | They often came into the dining rooms together and one day they were trying not to listen as Bessie was going on at length about her friend Elsie Dobson . |
| 8 | The boy was going on at length with apparent fluency . |
| 9 | Occasionally , when there had to be a drastic reassessment of public expenditure , it became evident from the leaks and rumours of resignations that something important was going on in Whitehall during the summer months , but neither backbenchers nor the House in general were able to find out what was happening or to discuss the changes being made in expenditure plans . |
| 10 | It is important for us to understand , therefore , that what was going on in schools in the 1920s , '30s , '40s and '50s paled into insignificance by the side of community drama . |
| 11 | On hearing from a parent that : something was going on in terms of a library project , he proceeded to put everything into action and got the support of the governing body … saying that we wanted to do something with our library . |
| 12 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 13 | Sir , reference to my appendix number five makes it clear that there was some lack of knowledge er by those in the village er round about June nineteen ninety two as to what was going on in Ryedale with regard to the site north of Skelton . |
| 14 | We wondered how Pop was getting on in Mayrnyo without us , but dear Madriya and his wife had stayed to look after him and the soldiers . |
| 15 | Gavin was called on to act as press liaison officer . |
| 16 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 17 | The tanker had been transporting oil from the United Kingdom North Sea terminal at Sullom Voe to La Coruña 's refinery , when it was driven on to rocks during a sudden squall . |
| 18 | Yes erm during the h the Probably one of the reasons I was set on to start with , was the tremendous amount of house building . |
| 19 | The point is that Humpage was brought on to bowl before lunch on the first morning of the match , and one wonders whether a selected wicketkeeper has ever been introduced into the attack to early a stage of a first-class match , especially since so far as I am aware Warwickshire suffered no injuries that morning . |
| 20 | His mother believes his death was brought on by lack of proper care and over prescription of drugs with dangerous side effects . |
| 21 | It 's something the Gloucestershire Social Services Department recognise … but insist was brought on by lack of support and funding . |
| 22 | With almost regimental precision , Thompson 's corner was touched on by Dozzell at the near post for Kiwomya to guide home his header from close range . |
| 23 | He had been talking about giving up and concentrating his efforts entirely on writing and directing and , like the discovery of another little nugget , was spurred on by reaction to The Trip which , in spite of a critical mauling on the grounds of promoting drug abuse , was still seen as a gifted piece of writing . |
| 24 | Much of the debt was taken on to pay for Standa , a supermarket chain , and the Mondadori publishing empire . |
| 25 | Brian Whitaker , who had worked on the Wapping Post and the Hayling dummy , had applied for the job of editor and , although he had not been interviewed , was taken on by Sutton as his deputy . |
| 26 | There were a lot of French-Canadian soldiers stationed in the area , together with British and Americans , and a weekly film show was put on for all-comers in the Methodist chapel on Saturday nights . |
| 27 | In November , an excellent demonstration of the OSCR System was put on in Plymouth by Andy Talbot , Arthur Shrimpton and Robin Stephens , raising considerable interest in this new acquisition . |
| 28 | They warned ( after an army helicopter carrying Wijnaendts was fired on over Okucani on Sept. 11 and forced to land ) that they would leave Yugoslavia if their safety could not be guaranteed . |
| 29 | One man died and his brother was seriously injured after their car was fired on by soldiers at a checkpoint in South Armagh . |
| 30 | On April 5 and 6 , a 7,000-strong peace demonstration in Sarajevo was fired on by snipers from inside one of the capital 's hotels , which was then stormed by demonstrators . |