Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 3 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 4 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 5 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 6 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 7 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |
| 8 | At Pearl Harbor itself exactly at 0800hrs morning colours were carried out on the moored ships , the first wave of enemy aircraft was sighted but not suspected . |
| 9 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 10 | Therefore , in order to minimise the risk of falsely rejecting an existing difference , p values less than 0.05 were considered as significant although multiple tests were carried out on the same data . |
| 11 | Age is unlikely to have influenced the findings or the conclusions of our study , because all the tests and comparisons were carried out on the same group of patients . |
| 12 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 13 | Two further operations to her left wrist were carried out on the twenty seventh of January nineteen eighty nine and the twenty sixth of April nineteen eighty nine . |
| 14 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 15 | Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region . |
| 16 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 17 | Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time . |
| 18 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 19 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 20 | The action had also electrified the crowd who were pressing in on the ring despite the best efforts of the khalifas to keep them all back . |
| 21 | They were flapping round on the |
| 22 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 23 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 24 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 25 | A hundred and twenty eight soldiers and civilian staff were moved out on the order of the base commander , some showing the signs of their ordeal . |
| 26 | And when it happened , you were passing by on the bus , tuning in to their moment from another reality , like switching through channels on late-night TV . |
| 27 | The strategies , and the weapons designed for them , that were acted out on the north German plains bore a marked resemblance to the actual experience of the second world war . |
| 28 | During January 1989 , for example , over 500 bottlenose dolphins were washed up on the Atlantic coast of France . |
| 29 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 30 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |