Example sentences of "they have [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | For some reason she recalled that moment during the afternoon when they had stood together on the slope looking down on Rocamar . |
| 6 | The bungalow showed no sign of life , and there had not been any when they had driven past on the road . |
| 7 | They had sat together on the other scaffolding and watched the Graces dance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | they have done so on the grounds that the company is entitled to the benefit of those exemptions as a small ( or medium ) company . |