Example sentences of "[adj] have [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There were also reports that some had jumped on the trains as they passed through East Germany , or that the numbers could have included previously uncounted children .
2 Two days earlier the human rights organization Amnesty International had reported on the conditions under which the detainees were held , and on allegations of torture .
3 Attempts to harness the numerical strength of the casual poor had foundered on the rocks of seeming apathy .
4 Much of the foregoing has concentrated on the origins and physical plans of towns .
5 Scunthorpe 's faithful few in a crowd of 7,682 had huddled on the terraces like penguins on an ice floe as the dankness seeped down the Pennine valleys .
6 Thousands had died on the battlefields , in rearguard bombing raids and in repressive purges .
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