Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nebbins was Mr Cooper 's only horse who worked very hard , pulled the plough and the hay cart , and his , all the other jobs that a horse had to do on a farm . |
| 2 | Blanche 's eyes had focused on a group of American youths at the bar sporting baseball caps . |
| 3 | On May 9 the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Arthit Urairat , announced that the government and opposition parties had agreed on a number of constitutional revisions , including one which would bar a non-elected person , such as Suchinda , from becoming Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Whether or not the subject of a mosaic was chosen by the client , the mosaicist had to rely on a number of aids and methodical practices when organising his work . |
| 5 | Industry sources said KLM had insisted on a 40pc share , while BA wanted an 80/20 or , at the very least , a 70/30 split . |
| 6 | If Kelly 's fall had happened on a racecourse , she would have been sidelined as a matter of course . |
| 7 | It was an opportune moment to return because the citizens of Aberdeen had embarked on a series of ambitious street improvements at the same time as the technology had developed to enable the exploitation of the plentiful local granite for building purposes . |
| 8 | A smear had appeared on a painting . |
| 9 | In a newly refurbished children 's ward in the Withers Block , debris had fallen on a father who was nursing his baby daughter . |
| 10 | The newcomer could scarcely have opened his account in more spectacular fashion , scoring with an overhead kick from 10 yards after Speedie had nodded on a cross from Trevor Peake . |
| 11 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 12 | Lewis was perfectly correct , even politically correct , to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first . |
| 13 | On Sept. 19 the RJO announced that it was freezing his release because Israel had reneged on a pledge to release 80 Arab detainees in the earlier transfer — 20 more than the 51 prisoners and nine bodies which were handed over . |
| 14 | The briefing , however , mostly consisted of Mortimer 's dividing the force into groups and assigning them positions to take up in the scrub around the cemetery , which was illustrated by a simple chalk sketch Petion had done on a blackboard . |
| 15 | Pilger had laid on a lot of beer . |
| 16 | In 1991 the partners had agreed on a trading plan that stated ICL would be paid using a raw materials barter arrangement for its components . |
| 17 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 18 | My father had relaxed on a Sunday afternoon , either listening to the band on Southsea Common in his later days or with a paintbox in his younger days . |
| 19 | Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight . |
| 20 | In a series of radio interviews on May 8 Annie Murphy revealed that she and Casey had embarked on a love affair in Ireland in 1973 and that she had given birth to his child two years later . |
| 21 | Toronto had scored on a sacrifice fly and a single in the second inning and on a home run by Ernie Whitt in the fourth inning . |
| 22 | The shootings brought to a climax the long-standing complaints by opposition groups in Serbia that the Milosevic government had embarked on a course of confrontation not only with non-communists but also , more ominously , with other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Consequently , following the failure of Meech Lake , the government had embarked on a process of mass consultation culminating in the report of the parliamentary committee . |
| 24 | Lloyd George 's Government had embarked on a programme of financing social reform at a time of rapidly rising prices . |
| 25 | While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at . |
| 26 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 27 | Yesterday , legal sources indicated that because the Marquess had appeared on a judgment summons under the Debtors Act , which carries a maximum sentence of six weeks , the judge was not in any case entitled to impose the term that he did . |
| 28 | Before he cracked , Mr Rushdie had stumbled on a truth : that if free speech and free writing are to be defended in an age of increasing religious fervour , they must be defended with a zealot 's passion . |
| 29 | As a student on Imperial College 's petroleum geology MSc course , Mujadid had to go on a number of field trips during his year in the UK , but had not been able to buy suitable clothes for the British climate back home in Karachi . |
| 30 | Mr Bennett disclosed that police had acted on a tip-off that Mrs Hancock had planned to use narcotics to murder her husband — which she denied . |