Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully .
2 Her words were barely audible , so light that they threatened to float away on the breeze .
3 In the evolutionary version , the payoffs are changes in fitness ; hence , although they may be difficult to measure , they do fall naturally on a linear scale .
4 At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve .
5 AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace .
6 There was no change in anxiety in the group who had received detailed information ( p=0.20 ) , whereas patients who received a rather superficial explanation of the risks were significantly less anxious afterwards ( p=0.012 ) , particularly if they had scored highly on the baseline anxiety assessment ( fig 1 ; r=0.27 , p=0.05 ) .
7 For some reason she recalled that moment during the afternoon when they had stood together on the slope looking down on Rocamar .
8 The bungalow showed no sign of life , and there had not been any when they had driven past on the road .
9 They had sat together on the other scaffolding and watched the Graces dance .
10 The General assured her they had thought long on the matter , and had decided not only that it would be a suitable appointment for her , but that she had much to contribute to social services .
11 When they had dried perfunctorily on the threadbare towels that were issued they were marched across the stamped snow of a path to the Store for the clothing issue .
12 they have done so on the grounds that the company is entitled to the benefit of those exemptions as a small ( or medium ) company .
13 The people filling the board room steamed gently as they sat huddled together on the rows of chairs arranged neatly in front of the big desk .
14 And at the moment , all five of them have joined together on a single campaign , which is about trade .
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