Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 2 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 3 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 4 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 5 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 6 | In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess . |
| 7 | When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked . |
| 8 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 9 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 10 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 11 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 12 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 13 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 14 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 15 | And suddenly , true to the route Ursula had picked out on the map , they reached the crest and saw Maurice 's car , parked at the far end of the lay-by where he had been told to wait , maroon and solitary against the pale expanse of chalk-smeared turf . |
| 16 | David Linacre had dozed off on the sofa one evening when his daughter Heidi came in and asked who was in the shower . |
| 17 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 18 | In those parts of the buildings that were protected against the rains a yellow film , like nicotine staining , had built up on the marble . |
| 19 | At the start of the next session , mindful of the head of steam that had built up on the issue , Ede announced that the Government had decided to recommend the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the possible limitation or modification of the death penalty . |
| 20 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 21 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 22 | Wainfleet added that although the police had closed in on the area they had missed Sniffy . |
| 23 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 24 | ‘ Eastern Suburbs had planned a big welcome for Martin and the match with Balmain had sold out on the strength of it being his debut . |
| 25 | All seven Fulmars had landed back on the carrier by 2015 but two were again scrambled almost immediately on the approach of three more S.79s . |
| 26 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 27 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 28 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 29 | It was ‘ a blatant bid for public sympathy ’ , according to the director Donald Driver , who had walked out on the production in protest at the way Dustin had taken over . |
| 30 | They played hopscotch , their favourite , in the ever brightening sunshine , throwing a white pebble into the boxes they had marked out on the ground , and then trying to hop to where the pebble landed without touching any lines . |