Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt . |
| 2 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | So active is a job that gets done on a daily basis every day ? |
| 4 | And wreckage has been found of two American helicopters that went missing on a routine mission from the U S S Okinowa . |
| 5 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 6 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 7 | Hefting a large , heavy pair of cable-cutters that had lain on a shelf , she let the first two go by . |
| 8 | The Former West German Chancellor , Mr Willy Brandt , has said that any party in East Germany that decides to run on a reunification plank is virtually assured of a runaway victory at the general elections set for next May . |