Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being instructed on the circuit , racing lines , warning flags , etc , the condemned men were given a hearty meal . |
| 2 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 3 | After being hit on the head with a bottle , Waller lashed out at Terry Malone , 24 , with a chisel . |
| 4 | New Zealand saved the follow-on after Nancy Williams defied doctor 's orders and resumed batting after being hit on the head by a fielder 's return . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , later in the same year , some months after being hit on the head by a piece of falling masonry , Geoffrey of Vigeois died , and without his chronicle to guide us we are hopelessly ignorant of events in this part of the world . |
| 6 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
| 7 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 8 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding rallied after being headed on the flat by Rio Haina in that two-and-three-quarter-mile event , and judged on that game performance , should not be unduly troubled by today 's extra two furlongs . |
| 9 | George Heron , 23 , had to have four stitches after being slashed on the forehead by an inmate in Durham jail . |
| 10 | A post-mortem revealed it had bled to death after being slashed on the udder with a sharp instrument , severing a main artery . |
| 11 | Islands around the world have often hosted odd dwarf forms of mainland creatures : pony-sized elephants once lived on Malta ; and it was reported by Adrian Lester of Cambridge University , in a recent Nature article , that red deer from the last Ice Age evolved into a dwarf form in less than 6000 years after being marooned on the island of Jersey . |
| 12 | Marine fishkeeper Ian Durnall , from Wolverhampton , was flown to hospital after being stung on the finger by his pet Lionfish reports the Daily Mirror . |
| 13 | The extent of the Guinness world conquest can be imagined from a letter sent home to Ireland by an Enniskillen Dragoon recovering in Belgium after being wounded on the battlefield of Waterloo in 1815 . |
| 14 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 15 | After being smacked on the head with a baseball bat ( wielded by Steve ) for a couple of hours , I remembered how to do it . |
| 16 | Five of eight houses offered for sale at Sanquhar Den in Forres , near Inverness , were snapped up within days of being placed on the market . |
| 17 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 18 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 19 | Giant vistas of haunting guitar strum looms out of the speakers and the feeling of being lost on the moon is hard to shrug off . |
| 20 | Similarly , Gnosticism was opposed to orthodox Christianity by its hostility to history , for instead of being based on the idea that God prepares for the future by way of the past it regarded the world as one from which God was absent . |
| 21 | The short judgments proceed on the simple ground that the sheriff was not entitled to retain sums which he had no legal right to demand , but the sums were demanded in return for the rendering of a service , namely the issuing of warrants , so the case is capable of being rationalised on the basis that they were exacted colore officii , a concept which emerged more clearly in later cases . |
| 22 | Even if , as a servant of the Gorengs , I could likely avoid punishment , there was a real risk of being shot on the spot by some itchy-fingered malai . |
| 23 | They would have had to know where Alex 's gun was in the Green Room , they would have had to run the risk of being observed on the O.P. side of the stage when they committed the murder … |
| 24 | After a period of being grounded on the Shag Rocks , it has now confounded weather experts by drifting west , directly towards the Falklands . |
| 25 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 26 | Odd-length periods have the merit of being centred on the middle observation of the period ; even-length periods provide a smoothed value that must be placed midway in time between the middle two observations of the period . |
| 27 | They hurried across the plateau , afraid of being caught on the forest path after dark , glad that the wind was behind them , billowing out their skirts and propelling them forward on legs that ran involuntarily . |
| 28 | Lots of girls married in haste and repented at leisure then because they were afraid of being left on the shelf . |
| 29 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 30 | About a month later the buyer had the clutch repaired at a cost of £45 and claimed this sum from the seller , alleging that the car was not of merchantable quality and not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |