Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following his visit to Du Pont , Sir Patrick was due to go on to Magherafelt , much of which was destroyed by a bomb explosion yesterday . |
| 2 | There was much going on in world politics at the time , including the Cold War and the Cuba crisis . ’ |
| 3 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 4 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 5 | He was able to pass on to Nicholson authoritative recollections of seeing huge worms crawl out of biscuits , eating a plum that was alive , seeing his wife sitting beside herself and all that kind of hallucinatory experience . |
| 6 | If he came over to them she would have to introduce him , and that thought was enough to bring on near hysteria . |
| 7 | James settled briefly in the papal city of Avignon before , as a result of British government pressure , he was obliged to move on to Italy . |
| 8 | Word came that the Sirdar liked it and Garvin was obliged to pass on to Owen a note of approval from the Consul-General . |