Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile my cotton body was wound on to great bolts , each one five metres long . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's just conceivable that one or other of those houses was passed on to another organisation … |
| 5 | The case was passed on to German Self Aid , who Rave £50 . |
| 6 | The material was poured on to hemispherical centering in which the coffered panels had been inserted . |