Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 2 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 3 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 4 | They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface . |
| 5 | Consequently , she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job . |
| 6 | But , regardless of how she felt , she had to put on a good face . |
| 7 | For Kirsty 's sake she had to put on a bright face . |
| 8 | Sally had agonised over what to wear — she was so afraid of letting Paula down — but eventually she had settled on a neat shirt-waister blouse and pencil skirt and Paula had loaned her a poplin duster coat in duck-egg blue with a thick soft grey Lucca Lamb collar . |
| 9 | She knew she had to travel on a long , stony road , without help or sympathy . |
| 10 | She had thrown on an old dress and not much else , and she played with the frying-pan as if it were Pancake Day . |
| 11 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 12 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 13 | They had stopped on a small rise , at Bernice 's insistence , to compare stories and devise plans . |
| 14 | It was as if they had landed on an alien planet , his fear that of awakening the denizens , giant and menacing . |
| 15 | Credit buyers were also asked to rate their satisfaction with the credit arrangement they had used on a five-point scale ( see Table 24 of Appendix I ) . |
| 16 | The Oil Ministry announced on March 6 that damage assessment was under way and that it had embarked on a large-scale rehabilitation effort to restore buildings , pipelines and damaged reservoirs . |
| 17 | It had receded on a faint wave of sound , but it was possible to imagine it working hard against the up-grade of the Withcall tunnel cutting . |
| 18 | And he had to put on a brave face as he manned the tombola stall at a primary school Christmas bazaar where his children Adam , seven , and five-year-old Amber were among the revellers . |
| 19 | What was this sudden panic round his heart ? — as though he had stepped on a rotten floorboard and it had fallen through . |
| 20 | It was just one hundred and seven days since , sailing from exile in Elba with a mere thousand men , he had landed on an empty beach in southern France . |
| 21 | Eden began his premiership in a businesslike fashion even though he had decided on an instant election . |
| 22 | He had to rely on a kind-hearted local butcher who gave him two chickens a week to build up his strength . |
| 23 | We checked all but our oilies , hand baggage and briefcases into the airport lock-ups , and after what he had said about the weather , I was glad to see , when we got to the car desk , that he had laid on a four-wheel-drive land-cruiser . |
| 24 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 25 | He had embarked on a serious and very likely dangerous undertaking which , until its conclusion , must precede anything and everything in his life . |
| 26 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 27 | Mah Bow Tan was confirmed as Minister for Communications , a post he had held on an acting basis since July . |