Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irina , his half-sister and the daughter of Turakina by his father , was kneeling intently on a cushion behind him while she attempted to dress his hair Yek style . |
| 2 | It was raining slightly on the day of inspection , but Willis , who had not been able to lay hands on his waterproof " tile " , but made do with a deep-crowned felt hat , stood on duty under the gap in the weather-boards , while an unsuspecting clerk from the agency showed the rest of the boat . |
| 3 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |
| 4 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 5 | There was a number on the pad ; she tried to memorise it but a large hand was placed squarely on the pad . |
| 6 | With the suppression of the monasteries and many of the hospitals , increasing numbers of beggars and paupers produced problems which were dealt with by statute , so that the responsibility for the sick , the poor and the unemployed was placed firmly on the parishes in which they lived . |
| 7 | ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was painted boldly on the side . |
| 8 | The introduction of grant-maintained schools was perhaps the most controversial proposal in the Education Reforms Act 1988 , and one which was justified primarily on the grounds that it would extend parental choice in education . |
| 9 | By the end of 1860 the education minister was reflecting darkly on the fact that one of the Kiev schools was teaching history and one of the Moscow schools both French and German . |
| 10 | The indifference of the electorate was blamed partly on the apathy produced by this being the fourth election in 18 months , by the confusing number of different party slates and by the lack of concrete proposal and programmes from the candidates . |
| 11 | Yet anyone who read the popular literature on the subject from the 50s found a massive denunciation of the welfare state which was blamed solely on the growing decline in parental responsibility . |
| 12 | The first trial under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 was held in Chelmsford in 1566 , when Agnes Waterhouse was hanged largely on the evidence of a small child . |
| 13 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 14 | From her office window , in the west corner of the chateau , Buzz could see what was happening anywhere on the two main terraces . |
| 15 | Ten minutes after the restart Philpott on the right this time , crossed from the byline and Walsh was lurking again on the edge of the six yard box to head in his second goal . |
| 16 | He was pressing hard on the button and standing patiently for the door to open . |
| 17 | Dunya , the cat , was perched precariously on the rim of the bath , gazing at her with ancient green eyes , her paws extended sphinxlike . |
| 18 | Looking in the mirror that was perched precariously on the windowsill , he combed back the hair that hung over his eyes . |
| 19 | He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past , and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong ( which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole ) to intercept the bird . |
| 20 | He did n't seem particularly pleased with himself even though he was patted enthusiastically on the back by the rest of his team and applauded by the spectators . |
| 21 | The light of the risen sun was glittering now on the tall glazed windows of the central part and glowing like honey on the yellow walls . |
| 22 | The separate identity of such organisations was accepted both on the purely factual level ( a non-member can not deny the factual existence of the United Nations ) and on the legal level ( a non-member may owe duties to an organisation and be able to make claims against it ) . |
| 23 | On 27 April 1962 four together were found in fields just north of Pagham Harbour and one was seen there on the 29th . |
| 24 | Then the head was turned aside on the pillow , staring across the room . |
| 25 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 26 | This property was built right on the water 's edge in the pretty harbour of Malcesine , just 10 minutes walk from the cablecar station for the ride up Monte Baldo for the most stunning views . |
| 27 | Already the auctioneer was positioned outside on the lawn , a table before him and a wooden gavel in his hand . |
| 28 | The tip of the catheter was positioned directly on the gestational sac . |
| 29 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 30 | Like so many others , this woman was acting purely on the basis of her naïve belief in Hitler 's good intentions and ignorance of what was going on . |