Example sentences of "he had [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That morning he had to call on a lot of goodwill from the proprietors and editors of the media . |
| 2 | He had tripped on a gas-lid in the road and fractured his patella so his wife was busy bandaging him up . |
| 3 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 4 | The wheel he had mounted on a bit of rod from Stewart 's smithy still turned freely in the burn at the side of the kail-yard . |
| 5 | Twoflower was feverishly attaching the cage of subdued lizards to the picture box , which he had mounted on a tripod . |
| 6 | In a related development , Unionist leaders called for Brooke 's resignation after he had appeared on a television chat show in Dublin , Ireland , and given an impromptu rendering of a folksong , shortly after the Teebane bombing . |
| 7 | He had stumbled on a reference to it in an English journal — a painter had once disappeared into the peat fields to escape civilisation . |
| 8 | He claimed he had fallen on a bottle . |
| 9 | Mr Armstrong said : ‘ He made a statement to the police making no complaint against his wife but claiming he had fallen on a knife . ’ |
| 10 | But when Kenneth Bowler was treated at hospital and when he made a statement to the police he said he had fallen on a fishing knife when he was drunk . |
| 11 | Herbert 's magnanimity in making do with the smaller bedroom , so that John might have plenty of room for the puppets , made Hanns envious ; the more so , as he had to sleep on a couch in the dining-room of his parents ' boarding-house . |
| 12 | He had insisted on a referral to the clinic because his wife was not pregnant . |
| 13 | Roman was the last man to turn aside once he had decided on a course of action . |
| 14 | He had to rely on a passer-by to let him out . |
| 15 | To cover the areas of special interest that Gould had been unable to investigate personally , he had to rely on a network of collectors he had recruited in the course of his travels . |
| 16 | He told US financial markets that have been on a roller-coaster in anticipation of his victory that although he had campaigned on a message of economic growth he understood the importance of stability . |
| 17 | For an instant , startled by that snapping sound , he thought he had trodden on a twig . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 19 | Like a raider , he had swooped on a series of nightclubs , probably before their owners even had time to fully appreciate what had hit them . |
| 20 | He had climbed on a garden seat to peer over the wall at their activities . |
| 21 | In the university library he had happened on a copy of the Village Voice . |
| 22 | He had slept on a friend 's floor and spent a very uncomfortable night . |
| 23 | He was still barefoot , but he had put on a shirt . |
| 24 | With the prudishness of the day , I glanced aside until he had pulled on a pair of greyers . |