Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically , the Senate 's claim to a say in the making of foreign policy had depended on the provisions in the Constitution regarding treaty-making . |
| 2 | He had depended on the Britons for support , and may have felt obliged to provide defences : so I argued . |
| 3 | Two days earlier the human rights organization Amnesty International had reported on the conditions under which the detainees were held , and on allegations of torture . |
| 4 | ‘ I read in the paper the other day that two people had met on the steps of St Paul 's Cathedral after fifty years or something . |
| 5 | Previous attempts to establish a common tariff had foundered on the objections of the smaller CARICOM members , who feared that it would have a negative impact upon their economies . |
| 6 | Attempts to harness the numerical strength of the casual poor had foundered on the rocks of seeming apathy . |
| 7 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 8 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
| 9 | Several hundred thousand Spaniards and non-Spaniards had died on the battlefields of Spain between 1936 and 1939 ; at least 200,000 more were to be executed during the next few years , 2,000,000 would suffer imprisonment or forced labour , and millions more again faced a lifetime of discrimination for having fought on behalf of the Republic . |
| 10 | As late as the 1760s an influential theorist could still argue that an ambassador who , on his own initiative , encouraged sedition within the state to which he was accredited , could be punished by it even with death , while if he had acted on the orders of his master he could be held as a hostage until the latter had given satisfaction . |
| 11 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 12 | They had laid on no facilities for the crowds and there were piles of rubbish everywhere . |
| 13 | Darwin was eager to emphasise the reputation of the scientists who had worked on the descriptions for each volume . |
| 14 | She had worked on the canals during World War II . |
| 15 | As far as Bill O'Farrell , who had worked on the pumps on the forecourt of Grunte 's first garage ? |
| 16 | In 1985 Belau had defaulted on the loans from foreign banks financing the project and was successfully sued in the US courts [ see p. 36701 ] . |
| 17 | For thousands of years the marmots had lived on the banks of the lake in Central Asia where they played host to a flea called xenopsylla cheopsis and a tiny bacillus , or disease , called pasteurella pestis , with no dramatic consequences to any of them , and not the slightest impact on the rest of the world . |
| 18 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 19 | Scunthorpe 's faithful few in a crowd of 7,682 had huddled on the terraces like penguins on an ice floe as the dankness seeped down the Pennine valleys . |
| 20 | And she herself had urged on the flames of the drawing-room fire with a goose-feather fan , like the one in the glass case . |
| 21 | A second had failed on the streets of Zagreb , lifted by the Yugoslavs , locked up and the key thrown away . |