Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 2 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 3 | To stop the argument they decide on a compromise : the patient gets half of one treatment and half of the other . |
| 4 | Two boys were fondling a large panting dog they had on a lead . |
| 5 | Next morning they sighted U-593 and attacked her ; about midday they came on a fleet of French trawlers but were satisfied they carried no German radio operators . |
| 6 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 7 | The value of the heavy minerals is in the information they give on a sediment 's provenance , although their dissolution during diagenesis may result in modification to the original assemblage ( Morton , 1985b ) . |
| 8 | That summer they decided on a trial separation , a decision which came as a ‘ thunderbolt , a terrible shock ’ to Charles , horrified both families and shocked the county set . |