Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 2 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 3 | Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 . |
| 4 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 5 | Sitting in the dreary Independence Hotel in Tehran late at night , McFarlane fuming in his room , the rest of the party had got on to a conversation about radars . |
| 6 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 7 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 8 | All because it had ventured on to a lake where models were banned . |
| 9 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 10 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 11 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 12 | That day he had held on in a photo from Forever Diamonds , on similar ground to that he will encounter tomorrow . |
| 13 | He added that two of the Mayo family which his team found were wearing ‘ bendy boots ’ and there was only one ice axe between them , even though they had strayed on to a climbing route . |