Example sentences of "they [vb past] on that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Last week , they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 tickets .
2 Last week they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 ’ Rangers ' statement
3 When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day .
4 That 's what they said on that film did n't they ?
5 Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ?
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