Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 2 | But data stores , I had stumbled on a case of data suppression . |
| 3 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 4 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 5 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 6 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 7 | He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing . |
| 8 | I had put on a show of contrition all day , and behind it had been incomprehension and fright . |
| 9 | 1 was attracted by another that I had discussed on a visit to Europe : certain branded drugs would not be prescribed at all when entirely adequate substitute generic drugs existed . |
| 10 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 11 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 12 | She had to go on a bus actually . |
| 13 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 14 | But Dexter knew Blanche had benefited from a growing friendship with a woman she had met on a management course at the police college at Bramshill — a former commander in the Met who had taken to lecturing after a heart attack . |
| 15 | She had settled on a carpet which had been unrolled on the sand in front of her house and the family had gathered around her . |
| 16 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
| 17 | she gave the example of a hedgehog pattern which she had used on a sweater . |
| 18 | Soon after joining the WSPU in 1906 she had embarked on a campaign of disruptive action which by the time she went to Epsom for the Derby had brought her numerous prison sentences for offences such as obstruction , throwing bricks , setting fire to pillar-boxes and smashing windows in the House of Commons . |
| 19 | She had put on a bit of weight . |
| 20 | Then she had started on a career that had always appealed to her : in the world of antiques . |
| 21 | houses in them days , if you worked on a p work on a place , you had to live on a place , you see , if you got the sack you had to get out of 'em . |
| 22 | I told you had to lie on a board |
| 23 | You had to lie on a board , his doctor said , oh it 's lumbago which , all the signs are the same , where that pain goes all down your leg effecting the or mia , sciatica and have to lie on a board , and we were in the prefab then and you actually er not , like some people put the board are you interested ? |
| 24 | On the back of a piece of paper where we had worked on a poem called ‘ The Word ’ I found the quotation that begins this chapter . |
| 25 | no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ? |
| 26 | The money he gave them they had meant to use for the Greek trip but it was more than they expected and they had gone on a shopping , then a drinking , spree with it . |
| 27 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 28 | But in the end they had to rely on a Tottenham error for a glimmer of home . |
| 29 | They need her for longer , but there 's no money available ; because of a shortage of funds , they had to rely on a charity to provide a … until they had pit he was in hospital with a chest infection every 2 weeks . |
| 30 | That 's right they had to go on a rota . |