Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's like this … their church owns the property , an ’ it turned out there 's a heap o' genuine folk in the city end of the organisation , who 'd no idea what wuz goin' on out here . |
| 2 | WE were spat on , sworn at and manhandled , but victory at the end of the day was ours . |
| 3 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 4 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 5 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 6 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 7 | As this subject could well come up again during the current academic year , the pages were downloaded on to disk , so that they could be consulted off-line without incurring further expense . |
| 8 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 9 | He seems to have realized , however , that there was a younger generation of artists who were to carry on his work . |
| 10 | But if you were to carry on and the woman was screaming no no no no get off get off get off , as far as I 'm concerned that 's rape . |
| 11 | Devon Malcolm and Angus Fraser opened the bowling and both started as they were to go on . |
| 12 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 13 | Those who were called upon to defend non-payment of what they owed beyond the promised date were , as they had always been and were to go on being , in the minority . |
| 14 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 15 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 16 | Clutching her bag , she tried to get up again , but they were hanging on her shoulders . |
| 17 | His executives sat bolt upright in their chairs , gazing at him , anxious to convey the impression they were hanging on his every word . |
| 18 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 19 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 20 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 21 | I mean the doors were hanging on their hinges then , things like that . |
| 22 | In Berlin and in London , in Paris , Warsaw , Rome , only the diplomats and power-brokers were hanging on , making desperate efforts , in the open and in secret , to avoid the blow-up . |
| 23 | And Rob and John and Liz were hanging on to it somebody was going to pick it up were n't they ? |
| 24 | And you were hanging on and trying to keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 25 | When patterns were pencilled on by hand , good workwomen could earn £2 a week , although most received much less . |
| 26 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 27 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 28 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 29 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 30 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |