Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 6 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 7 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 8 | Two large boulders were rolled on to the road and they sat down to wait , guns at the ready . |
| 9 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 10 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 11 | No clear distinction could yet be made between the wholesale and retail trades that were carried on in the ‘ shops ’ in the historic centre of the city . |
| 12 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 13 | Then , when her legs were lifted on to the couch , the croak turned into a stilted scream as she cried , ‘ No ! |
| 14 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 15 | Cargoes were off-loaded on to the stone docks , and again they caught the sharp pungency of unknown spices . |
| 16 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |
| 17 | The airport control tower was built out from the roof of the house and several huts of varied design were built on to the ground floor as reception , customs and office areas . |
| 18 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 19 | It seems noteworthy that these patients were operated on before the advent of H 2 blocker treatment , and consequently the indication for surgery , in contrast with current practice , tended to be intractable symptoms more than teratment resistant oesophagitis . |
| 20 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 21 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 22 | Additional poems bearing individual dates were transcribed on to the endpapers of the British Library copy from a manuscript owned by Dixon 's niece , a Mrs Eliza ( née De Langle ) Bunce , possibly the child of an unidentified sister . |
| 23 | It is from that sheet that the figures were transcribed on to the erm on to the pink and the , the , the , the , erm blue and the yellow sheets which have been circulated and which have been amended so that the figures now correspond on both sheets . |
| 24 | The story count is high — page three of the winning issue positively buzzed with 11 stories , and eight were crammed on to the back , which is as it should be in a conglomerate all about communication . |
| 25 | Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 , Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 and Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 were founded on by the claimant and Slater v. Burnley Corporation by the respondent . |
| 26 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 27 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 29 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 30 | By January 1928 the preparatory negotiations were going on between the TUC and the Confederation of Employers Organizations and the Federation of British Industries , the two main employers ' organisations . |