Example sentences of "they [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Led by Siemens and Philips , they agreed on a co-operative research and development programme , half-funded by the EC . |
| 2 | Still less at lectures which , Rosengarten recalled they avoided on a regular basis . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They moved on a few steps , again stood together , and wrote , " Angry . |
| 5 | They landed on a sandy , gravel beach ; above them rose cliffs which ran along the entire coast . |
| 6 | With the help of teachers and parents , they embarked on a major clear-up operation to restore the Cylla Brook to its former glory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For company secretary they settled on a 34-year-old chartered accountant called Michael Henshaw . |
| 10 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 11 | He suggested he drive her to his Harley Street surgery as they chatted on a quiet Bank Holiday Monday last year . |
| 12 | Most of the men on the plane would have been returning to their families and civilian life in the near future but , alas , they died on a remote and desolate Ayrshire hillside before they had seen their homes and families again . |
| 13 | . And er when they got er they went on a little whisky , well there were n't much about threepence , do you see ? |
| 14 | But nothing for Glenn the performer , who they offered on a free transfer two years ago . |
| 15 | An even more important feature was that many Europeans came not to administer but to settle permanently , which they did on a large scale in Kenya and Zimbabwe , smaller numbers also being found in Zambia and Tanzania . |
| 16 | They halted on a rocky ridge where heather poked up through gaps in the stones , and looked back to see Ralarth a green patch below them . |
| 17 | They set on a big conveyor belt . |
| 18 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 19 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 20 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |