Example sentences of "he had [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year he had begun brilliantly on the Safari circuit in Africa , had won two tournaments and headed their Order of Merit . |
| 2 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 3 | When he started to his feet he had to lean hard on the arm of the chair while a moment of dizziness passed . |
| 4 | He had leaned heavily on a stick . |
| 5 | He had stopped twice on the way up , at Norman Cross for lunch at the Merrie England cafe , and at Dave 's Diner near Retford for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 7 | He had withdrawn there on the advice of several people ( including myself ) that Downing Street was an impossible place for anyone whose curiosity extended to seeing every telegram that came in at whatever time of the day or night . |
| 8 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 9 | Too obviously he had lunched well on a dish laced with garlic , and he kept twirling his dark moustache , of which he seemed inordinately proud , while in halting French I explained my purpose . |
| 10 | He had come here on a misunderstanding ; believing that Wavebreaker had been at Murder Cay when in fact we had not even been within sight of that mysterious island . |
| 11 | The young art student was about nineteen when he died ; he had worked hard on the dramatic murals in the studio and then he tried mixing drugs with drink and that was fatal . |
| 12 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |