Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much ill-feeling was vented out on former collaborators , many of whom faced summary execution before government authority was fully established . |
| 2 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 3 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down on each occasion . |
| 4 | Bright was turned down on both counts by Field , whose principal consideration was the weather . |
| 5 | In his autobiography , Citrine himself was to look back on this second career , taken up at the age of sixty , as the happiest time of his life , when his creativity and other faculties were exercised to the full . |
| 6 | He looked ahead to where the road curved openly up to the left , free road ahead , that 's where he was going up on that open road ahead with this great sense of power behind his eyes , behind his shoulders , in his thighs . |
| 7 | A screen of black-clad riders was spreading out on both sides . |
| 8 | Now , for safety , the path was roped off on either side . |
| 9 | What sacred game was played out on this floor ? |
| 10 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |
| 11 | In 1962 ELDO was set up on this basis — with the L standing for launcher . |
| 12 | All the local army was ranged up on either side and in front , the chiefs a mass of colour , with their gold-embroidered robes and jewelled crowns and shields , the lesser chiefs in lion- or leopard-skins or sheep-skins dyed in brilliant colours . |
| 13 | And as the 1950s ended time was running out on both of these scores , as became increasingly evident during the later years of Macmillan 's premiership . |
| 14 | When she emerged from the tunnel , she was hemmed in on either side by wooden fences . |
| 15 | ‘ I was sent out on some ridiculous calls at Christmas , ’ said Mr Hunsley . |