Example sentences of "they [vb past] on [art] [adj] " 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 | Led by Siemens and Philips , they agreed on a co-operative research and development programme , half-funded by the EC . |
| 3 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 4 | Still less at lectures which , Rosengarten recalled they avoided on a regular basis . |
| 5 | They stopped on a straight stretch of upland road blatantly obvious and since there was a can of oil in the boot Maxim opened the bonnet to give them a cover story of the oil warming light having come on . |
| 6 | In Rome these stressed the emperor 's achievements ( military victories , public works , etc. ) , his virtues and divine endorsement of his regime ; in the provinces they dwelt on the important cults or monuments of the city which made them . |
| 7 | They moved on a few steps , again stood together , and wrote , " Angry . |
| 8 | ‘ Contemporary writers , ’ she said , as if they bordered on the unmentionable . |
| 9 | To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 12 | ‘ They fired on an unarmed one-armed civilian . |
| 13 | They climbed on the still unexplored sea-stacks of the west coast . |
| 14 | They landed on a sandy , gravel beach ; above them rose cliffs which ran along the entire coast . |
| 15 | But he envied more the great herring gulls and black-headed gulls which he watched through the bars of his cage as they soared on the summery winds , the white and grey of their feathers caught brightly by the sun as they banked into a turn . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They clattered on the flagstoned pathway and it pleased him to hear himself so clearly . |
| 18 | With the help of teachers and parents , they embarked on a major clear-up operation to restore the Cylla Brook to its former glory . |
| 19 | As it was imperative that they get to Paris as quickly as possible they embarked on a slow train , hoping to arrive in time for their turn at the theatre . |
| 20 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They fed on the flying fish thrown up by pirate ships and whalers — then perched on the rigging , only to be removed at leisure for the cooking pot ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 25 | The sound as they smashed on the upturned bottom was like ‘ a string of freight cars roaring over a trestle ’ . |
| 26 | After long deliberation , they settled on a dark bottle-green , and the elderly assistant measured off the required length , pulling yards of cloth from the bale and running it down the length of the counter , measuring it against a fixed brass rule . |
| 27 | For company secretary they settled on a 34-year-old chartered accountant called Michael Henshaw . |
| 28 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 29 | They worked on the following week 's agenda until mid-morning , only breaking when Fred was called away . |
| 30 | 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 . |