Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 2 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 3 | They even went on holiday together . |
| 4 | The armies varied in style ; whilst the Saxon thegns rode horses , they invariably fought on foot , with axes , and the defensive position forced relative immobility on their troops , with the central professional nucleus , the housecarls , surrounding the king . |
| 5 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 6 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 7 | There is little doubt that the popular newspapers and the police embrace the copycat phenomenon with enthusiasm , so they may be misleading on many occasions with the supposed examples they sometimes put on display . |
| 8 | They briefly appeared on deck for lunch ; a meal which Rickie hardly touched , while Robin-Anne , despite her apparent frailty , attacked the sandwiches and salad with the savagery of a starving bear . |
| 9 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |