Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 2 | Until now , I had looked on the legendary Frankenstein as a sort of piece-meal dabbler in cadavers , a small-time crank who haunted crypts and graves for mismatched eyes and hands . |
| 3 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
| 4 | Well to keep his rope tight , I had to pull on the other , and the other chap would jerk me back . |
| 5 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 6 | When the fear eased , she had banged on the locked wooden door , but there had been no response , apart from the laughter of the guards who were stationed on the other side . |
| 7 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 8 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 9 | Her desires were my only hold over her , so despite her frantic pleas I refused to go any further than finger-fucking until she had signed on the dotted line . |
| 10 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 11 | She had smiled on the new young courtier , and she had helped him , and he had been fascinated by her , for although she was ageing , there were still easily discernible traces of the famous beauty who had led armies into battle and lovers into bed ; who had brought Ireland to the brink of something so truly great that its fame would echo down the centuries . |
| 12 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 13 | We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’ |
| 14 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 15 | The Adams first visited Scarp in 1963 , ‘ It was as though we had disembarked on the flowery slopes of Heaven ’ . |
| 16 | The Adams first visited Scarp in 1963 , ‘ It was as though we had disembarked on the flowery slopes of Heaven ’ . |
| 17 | I have to say I enjoyed the first programme much more , simply because of the subject we had to discuss on the second one , which was Christmas . |
| 18 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 19 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 20 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 21 | They had stopped on the high point , where they could look across their own little valley to the dark sea , and back into another valley lined with lush woods . |
| 22 | Guided by the Emperor 's own harsh wisdom and foresight , they had experimented on the very stuff of Chaos and upon slaves permanently immobilized in nutrient vats , and upon prisoners . |
| 23 | They had counted on the shadowy street to mask the approach of the car . |
| 24 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 25 | They had lain on the damp sand under one or other of Brighton 's twin piers , having spent the evening dancing to the music of Joe Loss . |
| 26 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 27 | Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front . |
| 28 | To the outside world they had arrived on the international scene as self-made , jet-setting millionaires . |
| 29 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 30 | Dropping it on the red-pooled floor , Ace stared back at Richmann 's body and the sticky smear it had left on the grey metal of the door . |