Example sentences of "on their [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The two policemen had n't expected to be followed ; they were concentrating on their efforts to find the men who were now hiding in the covered area amongst the seats that were tilted upright in their stored position .
2 Each and every June , the world 's top amateur cyclists get on their bikes to pedal the roads , lanes , hills and mountains of Britain .
3 COUNCIL employees in Middlesbrough have got on their bikes to prove the authority 's Green credentials .
4 Trundling along the lane they entered was a line of galvanized garbage trucks , empty and snaking on their rounds to collect the day 's debris .
5 Representatives of the Darlington Farmers Auction Mart have met the borough council to finalise conditions on their plans to move the market from Clifton Road to Holdforth Grange in Hurworth .
6 Latterly , he had advised the Trust on their plans to alter the valve events , with revised profiles for the exhaust cams .
7 ONE Budget custom which will never fade is the habit of astute information providers with bad news on their hands to use the furore over taxes to sneak out the unpalatable truth .
8 Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger .
9 Sailors returning home stuck a pineapple or two on their gateposts to tell the community they were back and welcomed visitors .
10 As the Institute for Fiscal Studies spring budget report shows that Government borrowing is likely to reach £20 billion next year , will the right hon. Gentleman confirm or deny that the Prime Minister and his Chancellor have reneged on their promises to balance the books ?
11 On their sides to keep the corks moist .
12 When the nucleation density is high , the spherical symmetry tends to be lost as the spherulite edges impinge on their neighbours to form a mass such as shown in figure 11.7 .
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