Example sentences of "that they have [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while they just stood there , staring down at the boar , satisfying their curiosity after the brief and distant glimpses that they 'd had on the hunt . |
| 2 | Anyway , that 's the letter that I have to show people that they 've recorded on the tape . |
| 3 | And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Many are perfectly normal — except that they 've hit on hard times . |
| 5 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 6 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 7 | but then they said work , they wo n't let them , the money that they 've got on council houses , they wo n't let them spend it you see that ? |
| 8 | He denied that they had fired on the demonstrators and also claimed to have acted as an intermediary in organizing the meeting between the government and opposition on May 10-11 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Temperature — an intense degree of heat — was the route that the big machines , the hot fusion tokamaks , had been following in their attempt to induce the nuclei to meet ; Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had stumbled on another way — intense pressures provided by the natural make-up of solid palladium . |
| 11 | Timothy rose when Stephen and Kate did , glad that they had decided on refreshment . |
| 12 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 13 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 14 | Santer reported that they had agreed on four essential points : ( i ) a single market with a joint central bank and currency ; ( ii ) respect for human rights and the rights of national minorities ; ( iii ) defence , and ( iv ) foreign policy . |
| 15 | Its rubbish-collectors extracted a pay rise in January as a reward , in effect , for giving up a nonsensical collection schedule that they had foisted on the city in 1989 . |
| 16 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |
| 17 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 18 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 19 | ( d ) If , on the true construction of the articles , the directors are entitled to reject only on certain prescribed grounds and it is proved that they have rejected on others , the court will intervene . |
| 20 | I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on the positive case that they have made on behalf of the Labour party , especially for common environmental policies and for minimum social standards as proposed by the social charter , which has been agreed by 11 other countries . |
| 21 | You look round , you can see the results of this misery that they have caused on any housing estate in the country , in the eyes of our youngsters condemned to a life on the dole . |
| 22 | One useful strategy is to give patients weekend leave on several occasions before discharge , encouraging them to discuss the difficulties that they have experienced on their return to the ward . |
| 23 | All this side of the road is one officer 's area that they have to cover on foot . |
| 24 | All that has happened proves that they have taken on board the social consequences of change , while also recognising the future needs of a very special industry — the energy industry . |
| 25 | He will be aware of the recent increases in petrol prices and the effect that they have had on the entire day-to-day life of the country . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |