Example sentences of "we [vb past] on [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We checked on the five french windows that opened on to the playground , noted the survival of the wash-house and , on walking to the side of the school and round the back , found the original planks that constituted the vieille planche intact . |
| 2 | We concentrated on the three largest groups of workers in the oil industry ( ‘ oil workers ’ ) in northern Scotland in the late 1970s : construction workers of the oil terminal at Sullom Voe ( Shetland ) ; construction workers of the Flotta oil terminal ( Orkney ) ; and offshore workers on rigs and platforms . |
| 3 | We focused on the two newspapers owned by the same person , Rupert Murdoch , and which included the most rape reports — thirty-two in the Sun and seventy-two in the News of the World in which not one rape case in 1978 was covered by both newspapers . |
| 4 | We decided on a 25 mile circuit from Fishguard through the Presely Hills which offered a mixture of bare hillsides , wooded valleys and pastoral scenes of hedgerows and farms . |
| 5 | For the last two days we went on a two day expedition . |