Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 2 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 3 | To earlier when they 'd turned on the TV ? |
| 4 | They 'd struck on the very first day . |
| 5 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 6 | Everything seemed to remind her of him : the jade T-shirt which she 'd worn on that happy day they 'd spent on the beach ; a phrase of music on the radio which they 'd listened to together ; and even baking a chocolate cake for the children had almost broken her up when she 'd remembered how much he 'd enjoyed the one she had made in New York . |
| 7 | Leonora dreamed of the fierce rapture they 'd shared on the island and began to long for Penry to want her violently , to stop treating her like a younger sister , and sometimes after he 'd gone she 'd stare in the mirror in discontent , wishing she were tall , or voluptuous , or blonde . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'm of more use to him , if I carry his letters faithfully , than all the statutes and limitations and restrictions they 've clapped on the Welsh trade . |
| 10 | for coating and they 've jumped on the wagon . |
| 11 | Anyway , that 's the letter that I have to show people that they 've recorded on the tape . |
| 12 | It must be something that happens to men once they 've served on the Western Front . ’ |
| 13 | The producer of the video says preventing car crime is better than trying to cure it and they 've drawn on the real experiences of youngsters . |
| 14 | Helmut Kohl 's calls to brief Major on the British economy are doubtless answered by a builder screaming at the German Chancellor to speak English , or ordering him to get off the line so they can deal with the other jobs they 've got on the go . |
| 15 | I think we need I accept I think we need to look at certain areas we need to look at the entrance I mean if we were doing the entrance again we would have electric doors on what like they 've got on the Harvey Centre so you do n't have to fight your way in I 'm thinking of doors like this we 'll do that . |
| 16 | ‘ You say this is what they 've got on the other side ? ’ |
| 17 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 18 | Eventually they take a plastic sack they 've found on the beach , drape it round the pair of them and walk into the water , giggling . |
| 19 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For those children going straight to foster families , without even the support of the friends they had made on the journey , natural feelings had to be forced down as adjustments to a new environment and a new language were made . |
| 22 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 23 | They had danced on the night winds through the dark hours and before dawn she had flown safely home , filled with a new and fierce joy which was the warmth of Fenna 's fiery breath and the width and grace of freedom from gravity . |
| 24 | Since coming back to London on his £10 a week contract he had teamed up again with Stanley Baker and they had gone on the rampage . |
| 25 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 26 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 27 | He bought half a dozen other newspapers and read every word they had printed on the subject , but none added much to his knowledge . |
| 28 | However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ . |
| 29 | She would be just like the fairy dancers they had seen on the stage , and her feet would n't look big and flat in those shoes because they had lovely pointy toes , and little pom-poms on them . |
| 30 | Since the Survey 's seventh question asked visitors to comment on the exhibitions which they had seen on the day of their visit , it was possible , by noting the number of replies which related to each of the three exhibitions , to discover the number of visitors attracted by each exhibition , whatever their assessment of it . |