Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Jimbo can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past , and how he loved it as the crowd roared at every winning shot and then sang Happy Birthday as a giant cake was rolled on to court for him afterwards . |
| 2 | The Church denounced nonprofessional healing as heresy ( hence condemning many female midwives to the stake as witches in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ) and the state was prevailed on to grant a final legal monopoly of practice to the medically qualified by the establishment of the Medical Register in 1858 . |
| 3 | He was sold on to make way for two show jumpers — Lady Touchwood , a 15.3hh Thoroughbred and Floyd , a part Thoroughbred . |
| 4 | That was a time for rejoicing and oaths of loyalty ; but now every man was called on to help decide the future of the clan . |
| 5 | And this afternoon the Prime Minister was called on to act . |
| 6 | Gavin was called on to act as press liaison officer . |
| 7 | Victor Matterface , the Brakes Inspector of the Metropolitan tramways , who later became a well-known Tramway Engineer elsewhere , describes how he was called on to visit South Metropolitan depôts as well as in the 1920's . |
| 8 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 9 | Yes erm during the h the Probably one of the reasons I was set on to start with , was the tremendous amount of house building . |
| 10 | Information from the structured questionnaire was entered on to computer spreadsheets . |
| 11 | The point is that Humpage was brought on to bowl before lunch on the first morning of the match , and one wonders whether a selected wicketkeeper has ever been introduced into the attack to early a stage of a first-class match , especially since so far as I am aware Warwickshire suffered no injuries that morning . |
| 12 | The Queen was escorted on to Platform One at London 's Paddington station and boarded a reserved carriage of the 10.20am train to Oxford without the formality of getting a ticket . |
| 13 | Much of the debt was taken on to pay for Standa , a supermarket chain , and the Mondadori publishing empire . |