Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard him call after her and got into one of the swing boats with a pale , freckled little boy who was hanging nervously on to the rope while his plain , doting parents stood beside the boat , saying encouragingly , ‘ Go on , Sidney , it 'll be such fun . ’ |
| 2 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 3 | As she was pressed back on to the couch her mind raced madly in protest , but all she managed to bring out in a kind of croak was , ‘ No , Daddy , no . ’ |
| 4 | It was fastened tightly on to the right horn , so it dangled down over the cheek and eye . |
| 5 | At least , she was venturing out on to the verandah of the Mackenzie farm steading on most days and lay in the shade , making an endless succession of crocheted table covers and mats . |
| 6 | But their hopes were dashed when the rope snapped and the Bettina Danica was pushed further on to the rocks by the rising tide and the heavy swell . |
| 7 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 8 | Tess was going further on in the carriage . |
| 9 | Liam was helped up on to the driving seat by an even grumpier Den and the two women and the reins put into his hand . |
| 10 | The 70-year-old woman , who has not been named , was coming out on to the A67 from Piercebridge when her car stalled . |
| 11 | Her flatmate , Carolyn Bartholomew , recalls : ‘ Prince Charles was coming quietly on to the scene . |
| 12 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 13 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 14 | John Parrot , he was winning , he was winning earlier on in the evening , twelve frames too nine or something like that . |
| 15 | Yussuf was pitched off on to the other side . |
| 16 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |
| 17 | After her coat was thrown down on to the couch , to be followed by the long mud-fringed skirt and tattered voluminous blouse , there appeared before the child a fat woman , a very fat woman , in what seemed to be a clean blue-striped blouse and a long grey skirt with a fringe . |
| 18 | There was a thud as it hit his body , which rose in the air , fell across the bonnet of the van , then was tossed forward on to the paving stones . |
| 19 | Interestingly , this was not included in the main section of the Treaty dealing with foreign and security policy but was tacked innocuously on to the end . |
| 20 | She was ushered straight on to the train at Paddington with her staff . |