Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 2 | The story was , that unused to concealing money about his person , he had been robbed on the train and had had to return home . |
| 3 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 4 | For Mr Poher this long-drawn out struggle was something new — on the seven previous occasions he had been elected on the first ballot . |
| 5 | He had been named on the Munster Railway Cup panel for the semi-final meeting with Leinster . |
| 6 | Although he had been convicted on the king 's own record of his treason , a device used by Edward I against his Scottish enemies , many contemporaries thought that the judgement was of dubious legality . |
| 7 | On the second visit Mr. Burgess was given instructions different from those he had been given on the first visit . |
| 8 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 9 | He had been invited on the recommendation of Alan Mackenzie who was at that time Chaplain Secretary to the Salisbury Diocesan Association for the Deaf , of which Viscount Cranbourne was an active member . |
| 10 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 11 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 12 | Saunders , whose penalty winner was his first league goal in almost two months , revealed he had been put on the spot by colleague Ray Houghton . |
| 13 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 14 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 15 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 16 | He had been recruited on the strength of his life with the partisans . |
| 17 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 18 | He had been playing on the terrace , but he clambered to his feet and , yelling , ‘ Mo ’ car , ’ hurtled down the drive as fast as his little legs would carry him . |
| 19 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 20 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
| 21 | He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation . |
| 22 | He had been meditating on the parricidal theme which runs through Dymer since he was a pupil of Kirkpatrick 's . |