Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 2 | The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 . |
| 3 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 4 | Coy then took the DDI through the report Adam had made to him on the phone . |
| 5 | Or maybe Veronica had got to him on the subject . |
| 6 | He no longer maintained the stance he had advanced to me on the telephone . |
| 7 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 8 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 9 | I realized with a start that the beautiful young woman who had spoken to us on the bank was his wife . |