Example sentences of "they have [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 2 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 3 | They had stopped on a small rise , at Bernice 's insistence , to compare stories and devise plans . |
| 4 | It was as if they had landed on an alien planet , his fear that of awakening the denizens , giant and menacing . |
| 5 | Credit buyers were also asked to rate their satisfaction with the credit arrangement they had used on a five-point scale ( see Table 24 of Appendix I ) . |
| 6 | Their small eyes and poor eyesight , combined with their often murky environment , means they have to rely on a short-range echolocation system to find food . |
| 7 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 8 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |