Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above our heads a huge drum of paper , some twenty feet wide , was slowly tracking along on a conveyor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The fire was finally put out on the morning of 12 October . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the old days , Grandma was usually propped up on an upright chair and sat in the open door to enjoy the street scene . |
| 6 | The train rumbled nearer , Ian was still jigging about on the parapet , he could see the smoke box lamp flickering , then as the train was almost on the bridge the smoke enveloped the structure as Ian was doing his Highland jig ; he suddenly lost his balance and fell down onto the smoke box frame , the force of the fall did its lethal work and killed Ian Watson . |
| 7 | Salome 's hospital number was still pinned up on the noticeboard alongside the little red book where we are supposed to log our calls . |
| 8 | A standard , detailed clinical assessment was also carried out on a subsample of these children . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The auditorium was also lined up on a semi-circular plan ( 128 ) . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 13 | The instances of large numbers of birds having been shot or trapped for food , or rare specimens collected , is well documented , and in Sussex was often carried out on a very considerable scale . |
| 14 | Notable areas include Snailbeach in West Shropshire , some Pennine lead mines where smelting was often carried out on an adjacent hill ( ‘ Bole hill ’ ) and South-west England . |
| 15 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was here checking up on the search for Terry Place . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
| 20 | After 28 minutes , he was rashly fouled out on the left by Lee . |
| 21 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |