Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 2 | But data stores , I had stumbled on a case of data suppression . |
| 3 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 4 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 5 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 6 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 7 | He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing . |
| 8 | I had put on a show of contrition all day , and behind it had been incomprehension and fright . |
| 9 | 1 was attracted by another that I had discussed on a visit to Europe : certain branded drugs would not be prescribed at all when entirely adequate substitute generic drugs existed . |
| 10 | It was as though someone had turned on a current of electricity , and with every second that passed the image became brighter and stronger . |
| 11 | Someone had put on a Roy Orbison album and she slipped into the man 's arms to the strains of ‘ Crying ’ . |
| 12 | Someone had put on a record , slow , lazy music , and the couples on the floor were n't really dancing , merely clinging to each other like limpets , nuzzling each other 's necks . |
| 13 | Kuwait , which had insisted on a quota of 1,750,000 bpd , agreed to limit output to 1,500,000 bpd on the understanding that it would increase production when market conditions and prices permitted . |
| 14 | It seems that the rolled-up canvas , which had lain on a basement floor for sixty years in the Nice house , had been thought to be unused . |
| 15 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 16 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 17 | She had to go on a bus actually . |
| 18 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 19 | But Dexter knew Blanche had benefited from a growing friendship with a woman she had met on a management course at the police college at Bramshill — a former commander in the Met who had taken to lecturing after a heart attack . |
| 20 | She had settled on a carpet which had been unrolled on the sand in front of her house and the family had gathered around her . |
| 21 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
| 22 | she gave the example of a hedgehog pattern which she had used on a sweater . |
| 23 | Soon after joining the WSPU in 1906 she had embarked on a campaign of disruptive action which by the time she went to Epsom for the Derby had brought her numerous prison sentences for offences such as obstruction , throwing bricks , setting fire to pillar-boxes and smashing windows in the House of Commons . |
| 24 | She had put on a bit of weight . |
| 25 | Then she had started on a career that had always appealed to her : in the world of antiques . |
| 26 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 27 | Firemen helped ambulance staff lower a workman who had fallen on a roof at a housing site at Ash Green , Coulby Newham , Middlesbrough . |
| 28 | Without the operation , Laura , who had lived on a diet of liquid protein , would not have survived much longer . |
| 29 | His early arrival was clearly something of an inconvenience to his lordship and his colleagues who had reckoned on a day or two more of privacy for their preparations . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |