Example sentences of "they [vb past] on the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Contemporary writers , ’ she said , as if they bordered on the unmentionable . |
| 5 | To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They climbed on the still unexplored sea-stacks of the west coast . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They clattered on the flagstoned pathway and it pleased him to hear himself so clearly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 17 | The sound as they smashed on the upturned bottom was like ‘ a string of freight cars roaring over a trestle ’ . |
| 18 | They worked on the following week 's agenda until mid-morning , only breaking when Fred was called away . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Every day they worked on the old scores . |
| 21 | They called on the unwell clergyman Mr Riddoch , and again finding the conversation wanting — the poor man was unable to tell Johnson how much a university education cost at Aberdeen — the couple resisted all invitations to supper . |
| 22 | They called on the newly-formed British Horseracing Board to ‘ demonstrate its own independence ’ by carrying out its own inquiry ‘ on more egalitarian lines ’ . |
| 23 | They called on the newly-formed British Horseracing Board to demonstrate its independence by carrying out its own inquiry . |
| 24 | The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates . |
| 25 | They called on the Indian government to draft a population resettlement plan and to apply stricter environmental standards . |
| 26 | Then they started on the front line of police . |
| 27 | They decided on the following Friday for the party and Lee said that she would make a chicken and pasta and fruit and nut salad and make borscht and buy black bread and invite Philippa and Conrad if Larry would buy cheese and wine and serviettes and invite two friends of his own . |
| 28 | In patients C , E , and F with high values in the test it was difficult to control the infection and they died on the second , 134th , and 95th day after operation respectively . |
| 29 | As they lay on the great four poster bed , their bodies entwined , Maude almost lost in Cranston 's great fat folds , Sir John stared up at the ceiling , brushing his wife 's hair with his cheek , listening to her chattering about this and that . |
| 30 | They lay on the aired bedding in front of the fire and made love as Carrie had always hoped it might be . |