Example sentences of "they [vb past] on [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They swooped on 8 separate houses and flats , including 3 houses on the Hesters Way Estate . |
| 2 | When the film-makers were in America , going from penitentiary to penitentiary , looking in libraries , interviewing people , they stumbled on this amazing story about Marin . |
| 3 | They breakfasted on hot black coffee , biscuits and chocolate , eating in a silence cut by polite requests and answers . |
| 4 | Sometimes too he would take duck and geese as they floated on some high lochan , coming on them so low along the ground that they only saw him when the massive darkness of his wings came over the peat edge and shadowed out their life . |
| 5 | They sat on hard upright chairs in a draughty passage , and all the excitement they had been feeling drained out of them , seeping through the soles of their shoes and vanishing into the linoleum . |