Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying out various ideas they eventually settled on the use of a Ring Modulator , which sets up a low frequency hum breaking up speech patterns into juddery , intermittent tones . |
| 2 | ‘ They just knocked on the door and asked Cosmas could they light a slow fuse under the bed ? ’ |
| 3 | But they had all their equipment with them and they just stood on the deck and underneath below deck were the people who rowed the boats over . |
| 4 | They just stood on the doorstep and said : ‘ Do n't you want to see your mother ? ’ |
| 5 | In that regard as in others , we wonder what the policy of Labour Members would be if , heaven forbid , they ever sat on the Government Benches . |
| 6 | As she raised her little hammer to tap on the table , she wondered suddenly why the Advent had actually sent a reporter — they usually depended on the publicity secretary to supply them with a report . |
| 7 | They also agreed on the importance of the " safe , responsible and reliable control " of nuclear arsenals . |
| 8 | They declared that they both agreed on the need for further reductions in their respective nuclear stockpiles , but that they had not yet agreed on which types of weapons should be reduced and the speed of reductions . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the smaller coffin-maker could not cope with the high-powered advertising of IPC and Dottridge Brothers , preferring to place miniature versions of their handiwork in the shop window for the benefit of passers-by , though they probably relied on the funeral furnishing warehouses for the supply of linings and coffin furniture . |
| 10 | They then remained on the island to undertake night intruder sorties over Sicily . |
| 11 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 12 | They evidently worked on the assumption that no one at the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society ever actually listened to the records . |
| 13 | Yeah that 's , that 's okay it 's just er I mean I would like to feel you would introduce me if they actually knocked on the door and came in this evening otherwise they 'd think would n't you , I mean |
| 14 | Wherever the law settles in the post- Caparo era , plaintiffs will have to show that they actually relied on the work done by the accountants . |