Example sentences of "that they [verb] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while they just stood there , staring down at the boar , satisfying their curiosity after the brief and distant glimpses that they 'd had on the hunt . |
| 2 | Anyway , that 's the letter that I have to show people that they 've recorded on the tape . |
| 3 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 4 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 5 | He denied that they had fired on the demonstrators and also claimed to have acted as an intermediary in organizing the meeting between the government and opposition on May 10-11 . |
| 6 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 7 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 8 | Its rubbish-collectors extracted a pay rise in January as a reward , in effect , for giving up a nonsensical collection schedule that they had foisted on the city in 1989 . |
| 9 | As he touched it Ramlal imagined the great gleaming motor-pump that they planned to set on the river bank to irrigate their fields . |
| 10 | He travelled the country on his motorbike , convincing ministers that they wanted volunteers , and young people that they wanted to volunteer on a completely unproven enterprise . |
| 11 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 12 | When making maps you might start simply by asking the children to draw something on a sheet of paper that they want represented on the map — a house , a shop , the well , the woods … |
| 13 | So what we 're doing now is , and we 'll do again this year , when we publish the telephone directory again , is to send out to divisions any numbers that they want saved on the system . |
| 14 | He will be aware of the recent increases in petrol prices and the effect that they have had on the entire day-to-day life of the country . |
| 15 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |