Example sentences of "were [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 2 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 3 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 4 | Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only . |
| 5 | The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead . |
| 6 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 7 | Amongst the curiosities was a series of Tradescant portraits , which were hung on the gallery walls . |
| 8 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 9 | I thought we were going on a bit . |
| 10 | They were getting on a bit when I was born . ’ |
| 11 | If a Japanese firm were brought on a tour around West Belfast they would see all the barbed wire and be discouraged . |
| 12 | In this sense , the modern humanities were taking on the mantle worn by classics in earlier centuries , as a central cultural frame of reference . |
| 13 | Seventeen Stormont MPs were taken on a tour of inspection by the University for Derry Action Committee and one of them , Dr Robert Nixon , the Stormont Unionist MP for North Down , declared that they had been misled by the Lockwood Report and that there was no shortage of suitable land or amenities in the city . |
| 14 | Chris Law of Internal Audit , Regent 's House and Susan Grieve of Leamington Spa Branch were taken on a tour of the department , given a slap-up lunch and presented with a £250 cheque by Bob McInnes , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director . |
| 15 | As working volunteers of a fraternal railway we were taken on the strength of the Llangollen railway for the day , and , clad in our reflective waistcoats , we were conducted along the track , first on foot , then on the ‘ Neptune ’ , a diesel track inspection vehicle . |
| 16 | If it appears that the original decisions were taken on the basis of assumptions which have not stood the test of time it is as well to re-run the exercise . |
| 17 | On 7 October there began the debate on the revised version of the document on the missionary activity of the Church , and on 11 October votes were taken on the schemas on religious life and priestly formation in the seminaries . |
| 18 | The judge said Mr and Mrs Lauder conceded that from May 1972 effective steps were taken on the landowners ' behalf to assert a right to exclude the public . |
| 19 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |
| 20 | Radio Cameroon said that two people were killed , many injured and 219 arrested ; it also alleged that " certain foreign radio stations " were carrying on a disinformation campaign against Cameroon . |