Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | If Kelly 's fall had happened on a racecourse , she would have been sidelined as a matter of course . |
| 4 | A smear had appeared on a painting . |
| 5 | In a newly refurbished children 's ward in the Withers Block , debris had fallen on a father who was nursing his baby daughter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lloyd George 's Government had embarked on a programme of financing social reform at a time of rapidly rising prices . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Stupid burk had gone on a crane like that |
| 16 | They spent much of the winter , from Palm Sunday until late August , in the centre of a chilly and miserable bay at what is now Puerto San Julián — a winter made doubly wretched by an appalling mutiny and the consequent executions and maroonings that Magellan ordered ; by the stranding and wrecking of the Santiago , which the Captain-General had sent on a sounding expedition ; and by the realization of the dreadful damage done to the remaining ships by the constant chomping and feasting of those plank-gourmets of the seas , the teredo worms . |
| 17 | A Darkfall storm had descended on a factory in Leeds four years earlier . |
| 18 | An instance had arisen on a walking tour Jack and Warnie took in Derbyshire in 1936 . |
| 19 | Ski West had decided on a theme visit . |
| 20 | She hurried away through the swing doors , then out again to tell Dot , more kindly , that her brother had gone on a journey . |
| 21 | The Carey family had to rely on a house provided by a Bengali moneylender to save them from destitution . |