Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape .
2 The fire was finally put out on the morning of 12 October .
3 He was evidently very well educated , and he was just turned out on the road , and I do n't know where he is now .
4 Salome 's hospital number was still pinned up on the noticeboard alongside the little red book where we are supposed to log our calls .
5 Further work was also carried out on the International City Project , a long-term perspective for the development of Glasgow which has attracted interest from the highest levels in Government .
6 ( At the same time , though its existence was naturally concealed from the rank-and-file , a ‘ Line of Panic ’ was also drawn up on the inner circle of forts , Belleville , Souville , Tavannes and Moulainville .
7 The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin .
8 She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time .
9 I think Mao was quite keyed up on the whole situation , I think he realized that to win the war they had to erm adjust the mass support very carefully , and I think that 's basically what this I think that 's why two months later they er they er gave up this document cos he was worried then they 'd lose the middle peasants ' support .
10 The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying .
11 After 28 minutes , he was rashly fouled out on the left by Lee .
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