Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 2 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
| 3 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |
| 4 | The power lift appears to have worked with a cable attached to the rear of the plough , which was raised as the other end of the cable was wound on to a shaft . |
| 5 | I sang in the choir at chapel and was called on as a boy soprano for various local concerts or for a solo or two at Bude parish church . |
| 6 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 7 | It was laid on as a surprise by Nick 's colleagues at Norfolk county council . |
| 8 | As I say it was tapped on to a row . |
| 9 | Dean White , 23 , from Chepstow , Gwent , who suffered cracked ribs and bruising , was swept on to a mudbank in the dark and found by members of the Army Apprentice College at Chepstow , after coastguards with spotlights and a helicopter with heat-searching equipment had searched without success . |
| 10 | The girl 's pink and white candy stripe skirt ( 26 stitches × 15 rows ) was removed on to a length of yarn so that the top could be drawn up and stitched in position around the waist ; the sides and hem of the skirt were then stitched down and a pink bow was added . |
| 11 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 12 | This roused the Ruffians from their lethargy and they were unlucky not to be level when a Sharman shot was deflected on to a post . |
| 13 | When the earl died without male issue in 1373 , he was taken on as a king 's knight by Edward III who , in addition to confirming the earl 's grant , awarded him an annuity for life of £50 . |
| 14 | Philip was taken on as a sort of pupil-teacher , helping with the children and also furthering his own education . |
| 15 | A barium meal was ordered and the woman was thrown on to a trolley and forced to endure indignities ( being shouted at , roughly handled , and left in a draughty corridor with only me to help her ) at the hands of a very senior consultant radiologist . |
| 16 | The Officer was put on to a stretcher . |
| 17 | The real loss of life occurred on the evening of 4 December when a group of insurgents , accompanied by a crowd who had apparently come along to watch events , was fired on during a panic reaction on the part of the soldiers . |
| 18 | A Provisional IRA ‘ get-away ’ car was fired on by a soldier and the driver injured . |
| 19 | I was sent on with a minute to go and never touched the ball . |
| 20 | When the first container was loaded on to a truck it was so heavy all four tyres promptly exploded . |
| 21 | Beyond that , the official Libyan theory rested mainly on the proposition that the suitcase containing the bomb had been sent unaccompanied on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt , where , undetected by Pan Am 's inadequate security arrangements , it was loaded on to a feeder flight to London and then transferred to a third aircraft for the New York leg of the journey . |