Example sentences of "on [noun prp] [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He approached the county councillor and poet , Francis Thomas , and told him he would not be renewing the lease on Tybrith as they had now outgrown it .
2 They were fed on Herakleophorbia so they grew and became extremely strong .
3 Keith Richardson says it was an excellent Gloucester performance and with Wales beating England it just goes to show that the formbook can be beaten and Gloucester could well beat Bath on Saturday if they run and tackle as hard as they did in this game .
4 Keighley were not keen to visit the Humbersiders on Saturday because they claim that they had a sponsor lined up for a home game .
5 Moving on to sport now and Oxford United face Reading at the Manor tonight in the first round , second leg of the Rumbelows League Cup , the of a one-goal advantage from the first leg at Elm Park ; covering the match this evening is Mickey Inotta who saw Oxford 's bubble burst on Saturday as they went down 3-1 to Nott 's County .
6 AFTER the glamour of mid-week European Cup competition it 's back to basics for Linfield on Saturday as they travel to Castlereagh Park for a TNT Gold Cup clash with Ards .
7 They usually manages to make them last a week and drop them in here on Friday before they go home .
8 The eight were trapped by a roof collapse at 4.30pm on Monday as they worked on a roadway leading to a new face .
9 The Lions will decide whether to complain about the assault on Richards when they have seen the video of the game .
10 ‘ I definitely wo n't be playing for Rovers on Sunday unless they come up with a satisfactory offer and there 's no chance of that . ’
11 so obviously they wan na get it down this weekend and get it out the way cos they 've got some family coming for the day on Sunday so they want to get it down tomorrow .
12 Comfort met some rebuffs from people she had counted as her friends , who resented their allies ' safety from occupation almost as much as the damage they had inflicted on France as they pushed the Germans back after D-Day .
13 Yes I know I 'll take it when I go down to the post office and I keep forgetting , do n't like bothering with it on Thursday because they 've always got a shop full and I go
14 The assembled friends were told by Brendan Bracken in tones of wonderment that Churchill — that great Francophile — had rung to bellow that he would watch them die without a qualm if they ‘ ratted on Poland as they had ratted on Czechoslovakia , ’ while Bob Boothby told them repeatedly how he had exhorted Winston to ‘ break Chamberlain and take his place ’ .
15 During the Yorkist period there were undoubtedly some movements of popular discontent ; in 1471 the Essex men seem to have joined Fauconberg 's attack on London because they felt that the citizens were paying insufficient prices for dairy supplies .
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