Example sentences of "was [verb] on [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 2 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 3 | Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face . |
| 4 | This south façade of Manor Farm was built on to an earlier house in 1725 . |
| 5 | One of these latter patients ( no 13 ) was operated on for an obstructive small bowel relapse and in this patient , as in the two others , gastroscopy and chest computed tomography showed both lung and gastric recurrences . |
| 6 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 7 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 8 | Next morning the gale frustrated attempts to use fireships against those which had got into the Vilaine but , in attempting to evade its pursuers , the Soleil Royal was forced on to an offshore shoal and burned by her own crew . |