Example sentences of "they had [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money he gave them they had meant to use for the Greek trip but it was more than they expected and they had gone on a shopping , then a drinking , spree with it . |
| 2 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 3 | But in the end they had to rely on a Tottenham error for a glimmer of home . |
| 4 | They need her for longer , but there 's no money available ; because of a shortage of funds , they had to rely on a charity to provide a … until they had pit he was in hospital with a chest infection every 2 weeks . |
| 5 | That 's right they had to go on a rota . |
| 6 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 7 | They had fired on a bus packed with black commuters in October 1990 . |
| 8 | They had decided on a trial separation , Charles staying with his friends at barracks in London , while his wife lived at Alma Terrace , Arthur Road , Clewer , a district of Windsor . |
| 9 | They had come on a sight-seeing visit and , of course , they had their cameras with them . |
| 10 | They told what an excellent trip it had been and how they had sat on a platform in the sunshine halfway across to eat their sandwiches with not another boat in sight . |