Example sentences of "[conj] had [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 2 | Hefting a large , heavy pair of cable-cutters that had lain on a shelf , she let the first two go by . |
| 3 | He seemed almost normal again ; he had been staring out of the window and had commented on a street name he remembered from his London period . |
| 4 | I took a turn on a rope slide and had to sit on a tractor tyre on the way down . |
| 5 | ‘ Michael was on a dock , fully dressed in tweed jacket , tie , trousers and hush-puppies , and had to put on a pair of water skis , be pulled off the dock into the water , by a rope attached to a motorboat that roared past , and ski away . |
| 6 | Earlier reports on Sept. 7 and 10 had claimed that opposition groups had called for a popular revolt against Saddam Hussein , and had agreed on a plan for joint action , with plans for a government-in-exile composed of " various wings of the Iraqi opposition " . |