Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing I had said on the stairs , do what you like with me , but do n't send me away ? |
| 2 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 3 | Having perfected each manoeuvre in the flat water , I could then sail down the estuary to the open sea and practise what I had learned on the waves . |
| 4 | Rose knew that she had built on the foundations well and truly laid by Grandpa . |
| 5 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 6 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
| 7 | Too weak to do either , she had gone on the streets . |
| 8 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
| 9 | She had worked on the canals during World War II . |
| 10 | He sold his tape to The Sun and was later exposed as the ‘ supersnoop ’ who had eavesdropped on the royals . |
| 11 | Darwin was eager to emphasise the reputation of the scientists who had worked on the descriptions for each volume . |
| 12 | As far as Bill O'Farrell , who had worked on the pumps on the forecourt of Grunte 's first garage ? |
| 13 | He been with people who had lain on the tracks to try to stop the special trains bringing out 7,600 refugees from Prague and climb on board . |
| 14 | And she herself had urged on the flames of the drawing-room fire with a goose-feather fan , like the one in the glass case . |
| 15 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 16 | He denied that they had fired on the demonstrators and also claimed to have acted as an intermediary in organizing the meeting between the government and opposition on May 10-11 . |
| 17 | ‘ They had clashed on the stairs and argued over a girl , ’ said Mr Crigman . |
| 18 | They had laid on no facilities for the crowds and there were piles of rubbish everywhere . |
| 19 | It had shone on the thugs who had turned and run . |
| 20 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 21 | He had depended on the Britons for support , and may have felt obliged to provide defences : so I argued . |
| 22 | The man holding the torch was , he saw now , one of the local constables he had used on the arms search . |
| 23 | As late as the 1760s an influential theorist could still argue that an ambassador who , on his own initiative , encouraged sedition within the state to which he was accredited , could be punished by it even with death , while if he had acted on the orders of his master he could be held as a hostage until the latter had given satisfaction . |