Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 3 | With your wonderful knowledge of the Bible , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you produced the Lazarus motion which revived them all from the dead and they eventually passed on their way through the House . |
| 4 | Trying out various ideas they eventually settled on the use of a Ring Modulator , which sets up a low frequency hum breaking up speech patterns into juddery , intermittent tones . |
| 5 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 6 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 7 | The new biblical critics did not destroy the faith : they merely forced on intelligent people the distinction between history and church doctrine . |
| 8 | ‘ They just knocked on the door and asked Cosmas could they light a slow fuse under the bed ? ’ |
| 9 | They just stood on the doorstep and said : ‘ Do n't you want to see your mother ? ’ |
| 10 | But they had all their equipment with them and they just stood on the deck and underneath below deck were the people who rowed the boats over . |
| 11 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 12 | They normally worked on the Mitcham route , but had to run over most of the Sutton route to reach the depôt . |
| 13 | They finally settled on Dillons in Trafalgar Square … |
| 14 | And they still relied on traditional arguments about the authority of Scripture in order to establish certain beliefs that were ‘ above ’ although not ‘ contrary to ’ reason , for instance resurrection of the dead . |
| 15 | September 1938 , and under the terms agreed by those representatives , Germany was allowed to occupy Sudetenland , which they promptly did on 10th . |
| 16 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 17 | The grass they always lay on parched yellow . |
| 18 | They arrived on the coat-tails of the brief interest in ska music at the end of the Seventies with their lively but inconsequential ‘ The Prince ’ and ‘ One Step Beyond ’ , but they quickly built on their early success with ‘ My Girl ’ and ‘ Baggy Trousers ’ . |
| 19 | They once lived on a housing estate , but the council was forced to move them to the isolated bungalow after complaints from neighbours . |
| 20 | The place which they once occupied on the constitutional stages has now been occupied by the organs of local government . |
| 21 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 22 | Crabbe asks rhetorically why no-one raised a hand to help Grimes 's workhouse slaves , but comments that all they ever said on hearing of the children 's misery was — Grimes is at his exercise " . |
| 23 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 24 | In that regard as in others , we wonder what the policy of Labour Members would be if , heaven forbid , they ever sat on the Government Benches . |
| 25 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 26 | As she raised her little hammer to tap on the table , she wondered suddenly why the Advent had actually sent a reporter — they usually depended on the publicity secretary to supply them with a report . |
| 27 | They usually started on the DC networks , where the benefits from both reinforcement and standardisation ( which were usually tackled together ) were greatest . |
| 28 | They also slapped on the most handcreams , cleansers and moisturisers . |
| 29 | So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism . |
| 30 | They also embarked on an ambitious national scheme that was designed to place Britain at the forefront of the postwar civil aviation market . |