Example sentences of "were [verb] on by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When patterns were pencilled on by hand , good workwomen could earn £2 a week , although most received much less . |
| 2 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 3 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 4 | It 's believed the problems were brought on by wear on tear . |
| 5 | Not all the Redmond employees were taken on by Sigma . |
| 6 | Three senior ministers departed from economic posts , notably the Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Denis Bra Kanon , whose responsibilities were taken on by Water and Forest Resources Minister Vincent Pierre Lokrou , a Cabinet member since 1986 . |
| 7 | The Education and Religious Affairs portfolios were taken on by Giorgios Souflias , hitherto the Economy and Tourism Minister ; the Prime Minister , Konstantinos Mitsotakis , took over the Economy portfolio , while Yannis Kefaloyannis was appointed Tourism Minister . |
| 8 | After the death and resurrection of Jesus , the stories about his life were passed on by word of mouth for some thirty years before the first Gospel was written . |
| 9 | The all-conquering Abbagnales — twice Olympic victors with a combined age of 63 — had no answer to the explosive finishing power of the Searles , combined age 43 , who were goaded on by cox Garry Herbert . |
| 10 | Some 300 armed white farmers associated with the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement led by Eugene Terreblanche were fired on by police protecting black squatters from their attack at a settlement near Ventersdorp , 120 km west of Johannesburg , on May 11 . |