Example sentences of "they [vb past] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 2 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 3 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 4 | They were passed down father-to-son from Father 's great-great-grandfather to him , and every one of them acted on the pageants , father and son . |
| 5 | One of them remarked on the scent . ’ |
| 6 | The tethered owl , deliberately employed as a decoy , attracted the flock of small birds to the spot , where many of them alighted on the branches of the nearby tree . |
| 7 | The making of great telescopes , and of the mountings which would direct them and keep them focused on a star , required great industrial resources and skill . |
| 8 | Significantly , several of them focused on the threat of VAT on books . |
| 9 | Both are respectable men and one of them worked on the facility at Faslane for eight months . |
| 10 | Several carrier bags with the Mothercare logo upon them lay on the back seat . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note that , although Sylvia was able to recall the events of that fateful afternoon and to describe in great detail the sights , sounds and emotions which prevailed , she had no idea at all of how long the two of them lay on the ground before her mother regained consciousness . |
| 12 | Romance flared after they met on a camping holiday in Cap d'Agde in the South of France . |
| 13 | They met on the Embankment this time , Alexander Rokovssky and the gentleman known as a diplomatic courier . |
| 14 | They met on the Ponte Trinita , she seeing and calling out to him first . |
| 15 | Now they met on the Friday prior to the the delegate meeting and went all all over the agenda . |
| 16 | Rob Phone , Mr and Mrs National Holidays , and the journalist they met on the train have all gone their separate ways now , but perhaps a little enriched , a little relaxed , by a modicum of light , meaningless conversation . |
| 17 | They met on the polo field 20 years ago and the attraction was present from the start . |
| 18 | They met on the stairhead and Martin cried , ‘ You 've heard the news then ? ’ |
| 19 | They met on the set of the race car drama Days of Thunder in 1990 . |
| 20 | ‘ The last time they met on the face of this earth . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 22 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 23 | It was almost dark by the time they got on the motorway . |
| 24 | The standard tactics were explained — alerting the membership in each union , by letter or leaflet , dispatching activists to local branches to pass resolutions supporting the paper and to make sure they got on the agenda of the union 's conferences . |
| 25 | They got on the bus puffing and blowing but happy to be inside in the warm , and sat in their own special places . |
| 26 | Where once they lived on a beach now their home is part of a toxic wasteland . |
| 27 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 28 | They agreed on a procedure which will be debated at next week 's TUC conference in Blackpool . |
| 29 | They agreed on a price of £450 and after seeing ‘ proof ’ of the buyer 's identity as Richard Green ( a pass for Pinewood Studios ) , Lewis agreed to accept a cheque . |
| 30 | They agreed on a timetable of negotiations aimed at limiting the strength of their armed forces and involving regular meetings of a Central American Security Commission , which would supervise the preparing of an inventory of each country 's weapons and troops , and would establish the limits or restrictions on the size of regional armies . |