Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
2 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
3 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
4 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
5 | He was taken on the indispensable visit to Holford Glen , and it was there , seated by the side of the brook , that the brief exchange took place which Coleridge was still repeating in his old age : ‘ Citizen John , ’ Coleridge remarked , ‘ this is a fine place to talk treason in ! ’ |
6 | The above shot was taken on the 18th while the aircraft flew for Dutch TV . |
7 | In a criminal hearing last August , Dale was put on a good behaviour bond over the incident . |
8 | From March 1859 it was clear that , when the empire 's local government was put on a new footing , people other than bureaucrats would be participating in it . |
9 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
10 | This patient was put on a yeast-free diet , and given a second psychiatric assessment when her bowel symptoms had resolved . |
11 | After spending the night at an embassy cottage in Kyrenia , he was put on a Turkish Air flight to Istanbul connecting with a Lukhansa flight to Frankfurt . |
12 | During his second visit to Great Ormond Street , he was put on a two-week exclusion diet to see if a food allergy might the cause of his condition . |
13 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
14 | Mr Winning was put on a life-support machine , but died the following day in hospital . |
15 | After the War , this central theory of economics was put on a rigorous footing ( Arrow-Debreu ) . |
16 | In 1284 his responsibility for the operations launched a year earlier was put on a permanent footing with the grant of 3s. 0d. a day for life and a future widow 's pension of 1s. 6d. a day for his wife Ambrosia should she survive him . |
17 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
18 | but you 're saying in , in , in short , are you , that erm , that in the present instance erm the obligation was put on the United Kingdom government which has sort , it may have succeeded or not as the case maybe , discharge the obligation by in effect erm subject to the subsidiary provisions which you 've both make reference and leaving it to er regulate these matters |
19 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
20 | He was put on the waiting list for insertion of grommets . |
21 | Doctors tried out different medications to ease Glenn 's condition but tests showed his heart muscle was damaged and he was put on the waiting list for a transplant . |
22 | Not surprisingly , considerable pressure was put on the Conservative government to take some action to cope with the problem , though it was neither clear nor agreed what the basic problem was . |
23 | In 1980 the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( NHMF ) was put on an independent footing , with what was then a large sum to spend on Britain 's art and heritage . |
24 | She was put on an intravenous drip in a treatment room and left alone with Allitt . |