Example sentences of "[vb pp] on the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 2 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 3 | By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road . |
| 4 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 5 | Sometimes xerolas ( vegetables and/or fruits , often in the shape of a gigantic ball and strung on a pole which is carried on the shoulders of two men ) are carried in the procession . |
| 6 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 7 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 8 | In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands . |
| 9 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 10 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 11 | The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines . |
| 12 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |
| 13 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 14 | Gleizes and Metzinger stressed that Cubist painting had no specifically decorative function , and that it did not attain its full meaning only when hung on the wall at eye level . |
| 15 | Hastily he redirected his attention towards the circular screen that he had hung on the wall in place of an oil painting of some horned , scaly jungle monster . |
| 16 | The TV is regarded as the next generation of home sets , with a flat screen that can be hung on the wall like a picture . |
| 17 | We will take your pledge to the Earth Summit where it will be hung on the Tree of Life itself . |
| 18 | It seemed that everything in the championship really hung on the reliability of each driver 's car . |
| 19 | As far as I know , Sainsburys have n't yet taken that decision they 've they 've hung on the brink for more than six months now . |
| 20 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 21 | The latter so impressed George II that he had it hung on the walls of his apartment , and it was being printed as late as 1821 . |
| 22 | A weight is hung on the end of a wire of known diameter and its change in length measured . |
| 23 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
| 24 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 25 | A consistent feature of unpaid caring , demonstrated by all the available detailed studies , is that once a particular relative has taken on the responsibility for the care of an elderly or handicapped person they get rather limited support , if any , from other relatives or friends . |
| 26 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 27 | Boyd 's cross was taken on the volley by Ferguson as he deliberately launched himself backwards to make room for a full-blooded shot . |
| 28 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 29 | Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague , and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion . |
| 30 | His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt . |