Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sent on with a minute to go and never touched the ball . |
| 2 | I was taken on as a staff programme researcher for " Here Today " , Salary : £1,100 . |
| 3 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 4 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 5 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |
| 6 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |
| 7 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |
| 8 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 9 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 10 | Charsky watched him being lowered on to a ledge , a little wider than his own . |
| 11 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 12 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 13 | This is because investment business is not regulated business unless : ( 1 ) It is carried on from a UK office ; or ( 2 ) Where relevant , it is carried on with or for customers in the UK and is within the FSA 's territorial scope ( see page 39 above ) . |
| 14 | During its maturation it is subject to conditions not exactly like those the mother matured in ; and at fertilization it is acted on by a mate with a constitution unlike its own and unlike its mother 's . |
| 15 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 16 | It was laid on as a surprise by Nick 's colleagues at Norfolk county council . |
| 17 | Beyond that , the official Libyan theory rested mainly on the proposition that the suitcase containing the bomb had been sent unaccompanied on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt , where , undetected by Pan Am 's inadequate security arrangements , it was loaded on to a feeder flight to London and then transferred to a third aircraft for the New York leg of the journey . |
| 18 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 19 | As I say it was tapped on to a row . |
| 20 | The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems . |
| 21 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 22 | When the earl died without male issue in 1373 , he was taken on as a king 's knight by Edward III who , in addition to confirming the earl 's grant , awarded him an annuity for life of £50 . |
| 23 | He was driven on by a potent sense of mission and a deep faith in his own ability to secure what he wanted . |