Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 2 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 3 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 4 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 5 | They had stopped on the high point , where they could look across their own little valley to the dark sea , and back into another valley lined with lush woods . |
| 6 | Guided by the Emperor 's own harsh wisdom and foresight , they had experimented on the very stuff of Chaos and upon slaves permanently immobilized in nutrient vats , and upon prisoners . |
| 7 | They had counted on the shadowy street to mask the approach of the car . |
| 8 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 9 | They had lain on the damp sand under one or other of Brighton 's twin piers , having spent the evening dancing to the music of Joe Loss . |
| 10 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 11 | Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front . |
| 12 | To the outside world they had arrived on the international scene as self-made , jet-setting millionaires . |