Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were also reports that some had jumped on the trains as they passed through East Germany , or that the numbers could have included previously uncounted children . |
| 2 | Two days earlier the human rights organization Amnesty International had reported on the conditions under which the detainees were held , and on allegations of torture . |
| 3 | Attempts to harness the numerical strength of the casual poor had foundered on the rocks of seeming apathy . |
| 4 | Much of the foregoing has concentrated on the origins and physical plans of towns . |
| 5 | Scunthorpe 's faithful few in a crowd of 7,682 had huddled on the terraces like penguins on an ice floe as the dankness seeped down the Pennine valleys . |
| 6 | That 's another story , where they were , and if you 're interested , downstairs there 's a very good map that shows you superimposed on a modern map of Oxford where they were , but they very much affected citizens in the St Aldate 's , because every citizen , and every scholar who was still in the university , between the ages of 16 and 60 had to work on the fortifications at least one day a week , or pay a shilling fine . |
| 7 | Thousands had died on the battlefields , in rearguard bombing raids and in repressive purges . |