Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much ill-feeling was vented out on former collaborators , many of whom faced summary execution before government authority was fully established . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down on each occasion . |
| 3 | Bright was turned down on both counts by Field , whose principal consideration was the weather . |
| 4 | Now , for safety , the path was roped off on either side . |
| 5 | What sacred game was played out on this floor ? |
| 6 | In 1962 ELDO was set up on this basis — with the L standing for launcher . |
| 7 | All the local army was ranged up on either side and in front , the chiefs a mass of colour , with their gold-embroidered robes and jewelled crowns and shields , the lesser chiefs in lion- or leopard-skins or sheep-skins dyed in brilliant colours . |
| 8 | When she emerged from the tunnel , she was hemmed in on either side by wooden fences . |