Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on at [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier .
2 Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room .
3 One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table .
4 Quite apart from this impulsive folly , there was another reason for Leopold to be anxious : Wolfgang had written that on being turfed out of the archbishop 's lodgings he had taken refuge with his friends the Webers , who had left Munich for Vienna in 1779 when Aloysia was taken on at the German opera .
5 A Paul Gascoigne corner in the 13th minute was flicked on at the near post by John Barnes and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal .
  Next page