Example sentences of "they [vb past] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey . |
| 2 | To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact . |
| 3 | Yet , in heavy rock terms , they still retain an erudite edge and play with an urgency onstage that outstrips the uncharacteristically sluggish Babes In Toyland , when they played on the other side of town , two nights earlier . |
| 4 | When work for the proprietors on what was to become the famous Mason–Dixon line was complete late in 1766 , they began on the Royal Society 's behalf , at Dixon 's suggestion , to measure a degree of the meridian on the Delmarva peninsula in Maryland and to make gravity measurements with a clock sent out by the Society , the same one that Maskelyne had had in St Helena and Dixon took to the Cape in 1761 . |
| 5 | They clattered on the flagstoned pathway and it pleased him to hear himself so clearly . |
| 6 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 7 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 8 | The sound as they smashed on the upturned bottom was like ‘ a string of freight cars roaring over a trestle ’ . |
| 9 | They worked on the following week 's agenda until mid-morning , only breaking when Fred was called away . |
| 10 | In the back rooms of Whitehall , where they worked on the knotty problem of what to do in a national emergency , there was a file on the likely effects of German air attacks on London . |
| 11 | They called on the unwell clergyman Mr Riddoch , and again finding the conversation wanting — the poor man was unable to tell Johnson how much a university education cost at Aberdeen — the couple resisted all invitations to supper . |
| 12 | They called on the Indian government to draft a population resettlement plan and to apply stricter environmental standards . |
| 13 | Then they started on the front line of police . |
| 14 | They lay on the aired bedding in front of the fire and made love as Carrie had always hoped it might be . |
| 15 | And it may be that the Gardener Centre has a broader community function than previously realized , in that it might be a marvellous place for families and kids and mums and dads , as they did on the recent Gardener Open Day , to come up and spend some time in casual appreciation of the arts instead of what , traditionally , a university campus is supposed to do , which is a serious and intensive look at experimental and avant garde work . |
| 16 | People will spend more on cooking oil during the lifetime of the machine that they did on the initial capital cost of the machine . |
| 17 | In the extract reproduced below ( 14 ) , the orthographic paragraph boundaries as they appeared on the printed page have been ignored . |
| 18 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 19 | At the end of our period John of Salisbury wrote his Historia pontificalis , with its centre in Rome and the curia — a chronicle of events seen as they impinged on the eternal city ; and he talks much less of pilgrims , much more of diplomatic visits and of litigants . |
| 20 | They slept on the concrete floor . |
| 21 | With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side . |
| 22 | The sun was dark red behind the trees now and their voices echoed in the valley as they slid on the frozen horse pond in the yard . |
| 23 | They stood on the landward edge of the riverside path , very close to the lipping water . |
| 24 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 25 | They stood on the warm asphalt . |
| 26 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 27 | Swiftly they closed on the running prey up ahead , the scent growing stronger in their nostrils , heightening the bloodlust of the chase . |
| 28 | They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar . |
| 29 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 30 | They sat on the little bit of flat roof above the attic skylight , behind a low parapet . |