Example sentences of "they [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last week , they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 tickets . |
| 2 | Last week they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 ’ Rangers ' statement |
| 3 | The response of the Governors was swift : they announced on 14th March 1975 that the School would go " Independent " and they launched The Stopfordian Trust to provide the sort of bursaries which would be required . |
| 4 | They failed on both counts . |
| 5 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 6 | cars ) in London Road , Mitcham , when they met on temporary track where relaying was in progress . |
| 7 | And he concluded : ‘ The British people deserve better than they got on 9th April , 1992 . ’ |
| 8 | They swooped on eight addresses in the Kirkby , Tuebrook and Kirkdale areas at 7am today . |
| 9 | They swooped on two ICI plants to block pipes pouring out thousands of gallons of poison . |
| 10 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 11 | They debated unhappily , reluctant to commit themselves to an opinion , until John Prophet suggested sadly that in the circumstances it might be well to consult the archbishop of Canterbury , and in some relief they agreed on this course , and carried their problem that same afternoon to Lambeth ; where Thomas Arundel , on the force of whose word and influence they could rely , advised them , in consideration of the desperate need , to issue the required letters patent , and he would be responsible for defending their action to the king , should it need any defence . |
| 12 | Both sides accepted the Uniates ' right to leave the Orthodox Church and affiliate to Rome , and condemned Uniate-orthodox violence ; they agreed on further talks to resolve matters like the disputed ownership of church buildings . |
| 13 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 14 | Grudgers came to dominate the population because they passed on more genes to future generations than either Suckers ( who helped others indiscriminately , and were exploited ) or Cheats ( who tried ruthlessly to exploit everybody and ended up doing each other down ) . |
| 15 | But of course , the ‘ life from space ’ hypothesis does not answer the question of how the very first organic molecules arose ; and it seems at least as likely that they arose on primitive Earth as elsewhere . |
| 16 | When foreign companies like Intel , a maker of computer chips , arrived in Penang 20 years ago , they concentrated on simple assembly work . |
| 17 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |
| 18 | They reported on 19th October , 1854 that subsidence had occurred in the eastern part of the Foreign Office necessitating a new foundation and rebuilt front wall . |
| 19 | Occupying their own apartments at the palace and giving little heed to the prevailing rumour that the king was unwell , neither she nor Joan was prepared for the tidings they received on that April afternoon . |
| 20 | Cecil 's response , which they received on 6 August , was an expression of sympathy — and equally cautious . |
| 21 | They parked on adjacent meters . |
| 22 | But they seemed on good terms , always fraternizing and joking together : a team of workmates on the assembly line . |
| 23 | Later , as they strolled on neat walkways and over pretty Oriental stone bridges , Luke 's mood grew more relaxed , so Maria reintroduced the subject which had been the initial cause of their earlier conflict . |
| 24 | At first some still found this difficult , as they practised on each other . |
| 25 | And how the only strokes they knew were those they practised on each other 's bodies . ) |
| 26 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 27 | They appealed on several grounds , but particularly that ‘ an agreement by two or more persons to insert advertisements in a magazine for the purpose of homosexual acts taking place between consenting adult males in private did not constitute an offence ’ . |
| 28 | The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils . |
| 29 | On 17 December ‘ Reynolds ’ and his wife ‘ Anne ’ , with Blake safely hidden away , left Britain on the Dover ferry to Ostend , drove across Belgium to West Germany and thence to a border crossing-point with East Germany where they arrived on 19 December . |
| 30 | From there they headed south into the desert to Bir Zalten where they arrived on 29 November . |