Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irina , his half-sister and the daughter of Turakina by his father , was kneeling intently on a cushion behind him while she attempted to dress his hair Yek style . |
| 2 | It was raining slightly on the day of inspection , but Willis , who had not been able to lay hands on his waterproof " tile " , but made do with a deep-crowned felt hat , stood on duty under the gap in the weather-boards , while an unsuspecting clerk from the agency showed the rest of the boat . |
| 3 | Fortunately Jack 's humour was heard only on rehearsal although listeners might have liked it even if Laurence Gilliam did not . |
| 4 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |
| 5 | When his daughter committed suicide , every ounce of blame was placed squarely on Stone 's shoulders … ’ |
| 6 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 7 | There was a number on the pad ; she tried to memorise it but a large hand was placed squarely on the pad . |
| 8 | Furthermore , excessive emphasis was placed both on measurable landscape attributes and on devising universal methods , while neglecting the social attitudes , feelings and values of the general public . |
| 9 | With the suppression of the monasteries and many of the hospitals , increasing numbers of beggars and paupers produced problems which were dealt with by statute , so that the responsibility for the sick , the poor and the unemployed was placed firmly on the parishes in which they lived . |
| 10 | Surely not one more could cram into the sheep quarters , but down they came , and a gangway was placed right on our saloon deck . |
| 11 | In a White Paper ( Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and the Reform of the Rating System , 1983 ) blame for this was placed mainly on excessive spending by a small number of authorities , which the government proposed to curtail by a new control mechanism : rate-capping . |
| 12 | The Carpenter family were themselves stalwarts of the said chapel , and Charles 's bride is probably the Elizabeth Carpenter who was baptised there on 2 April 1760 , then aged between 11 and 12 years old . |
| 13 | ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was painted boldly on the side . |
| 14 | The introduction of grant-maintained schools was perhaps the most controversial proposal in the Education Reforms Act 1988 , and one which was justified primarily on the grounds that it would extend parental choice in education . |
| 15 | By the end of 1860 the education minister was reflecting darkly on the fact that one of the Kiev schools was teaching history and one of the Moscow schools both French and German . |
| 16 | Lance Corporal Wayne Edwards was flown home on one of the Hercules transport planes which have been making regular relief flights into Sarajevo . |
| 17 | Azerbaijani anger over the sovereignty issue was provoked further on Jan. 10-11 when the Armenian Supreme Soviet voted to extend the provisions of its republican budget and election laws to cover Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 18 | The case was listed again on 22 December 1989 and on that occasion the prosecution offered no evidence . |
| 19 | How good the meal was depended entirely on what the cook was like , you could n't believe the difference . |
| 20 | Under the Arab League Charter a resolution passed by a majority of votes was binding only on member states voting in favour . |
| 21 | The indifference of the electorate was blamed partly on the apathy produced by this being the fourth election in 18 months , by the confusing number of different party slates and by the lack of concrete proposal and programmes from the candidates . |
| 22 | Yet anyone who read the popular literature on the subject from the 50s found a massive denunciation of the welfare state which was blamed solely on the growing decline in parental responsibility . |
| 23 | Guillermo Ford Boyd resigned his post as Planning and Economic Policy Minister , it was reported locally on Aug. 28 , but remained Second Vice-President . |
| 24 | With Clapham still in people 's minds , public confidence in BR was shattered again on 4 March when two Saturday afternoon trains collided at Purley , killing six and injuring over eighty more . |
| 25 | The first trial under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 was held in Chelmsford in 1566 , when Agnes Waterhouse was hanged largely on the evidence of a small child . |
| 26 | He was instituted there on 3 May 1631 and served for several years . |
| 27 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 28 | From her office window , in the west corner of the chateau , Buzz could see what was happening anywhere on the two main terraces . |
| 29 | These awful conditions naturally made it quite impossible to tell what was happening actually on Krakatoa , but it is thought that some milder explosive activity continued . |
| 30 | Ten minutes after the restart Philpott on the right this time , crossed from the byline and Walsh was lurking again on the edge of the six yard box to head in his second goal . |