Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 2 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 3 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 4 | There was a storm as we passed the southern tip of Cuba , and the ship I was on was smashed on to offshore rocks by the weather . |
| 5 | Meanwhile my cotton body was wound on to great bolts , each one five metres long . |
| 6 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 7 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 8 | London 's later partner in the Brompton Park nursery , Henry Wise [ q.v. ] , was another of Rose 's apprentices , whose influence on the design of formal gardens was handed on in this way to the next generation . |
| 9 | The business of importing dramatic madness to Broadmoor was embarked on with enormous misgivings . |
| 10 | In May 1835 , the relieving officer of the new Chailey Union was set on by thirty men in Ringmer , demanding ‘ money or blood ’ ; they got their relief in cash instead of the food tickets he offered . |
| 11 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 12 | ( Presumably his fatal illness was brought on by severe shock . ) |
| 13 | What seems to have happened is that the distinction , drawn perhaps from one of the few classical instances ( of Ulpian or Papinian ) , was seized on by epi-classical law and later adopted as a post-classical touchstone . |
| 14 | However , she was taken on for six months by the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the children 's ward . |
| 15 | It 's just conceivable that one or other of those houses was passed on to another organisation … |
| 16 | The case was passed on to German Self Aid , who Rave £50 . |
| 17 | For all these reasons , the unexpected visit of the clergyman was passed on with ponderous confidentiality . |
| 18 | The significance of this to our enquiry is that , when Robertson 's order was passed on by Eighth Army to 5 Corps , it was to be taken by 5 Corps — as we shall see later — to authorise the handing over of various groups of Yugoslav surrendered personnel , including the 15,000-odd Slovene , Serb and Montenegrin troops who had surrendered two days earlier and been placed in Viktring camp . |
| 19 | During 1976 the Firefly 's Rolls-Royce Griffon XII was worked on by local aircraft engineers and they managed to get it running again . |
| 20 | Well I think it , I think it was put on after this bit . |
| 21 | The material was poured on to hemispherical centering in which the coffered panels had been inserted . |
| 22 | A copy was sent on by Eighth Army at 0925 hrs on 15 May to 5 Corps for action [ KP 113 ] . |