Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then , opening the other eye , she saw that the other little girl , Emma — or was it Sophie ? — had leaped on to the bed to join her sister . |
| 32 | Ari 's spirits rose slightly once the group had bundled on to the highwire . |
| 33 | He had stayed on during the war only because so many doctors had been away , engaged in service to the country . |
| 34 | All because it had ventured on to a lake where models were banned . |
| 35 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 36 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 37 | The five remaining dogs had raced on down the driveway , past the gaping ruin of the buckled gates , and out onto the highway beyond . |
| 38 | For years he had plodded on in a series of jobs on building sites — and at one stage he even played football as a semi-professional in Ireland . |
| 39 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 40 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 41 | The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 44 | After buying fresh bread she had gone on to the fish market where boxes full of melting ice displayed what was left of the morning 's catch , much of which she did n't recognise . |
| 45 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had forgotten to tell Urquhart what had gone on during the day , especially what Marek Nowak had told her and the disastrous arrest of Taczek . |
| 46 | These were Allen 's and Marian 's guesses as to what had gone on in the darkness but the rest of the story of those two hours before dawn was easily pieced together from Tom All Alone 's account . |
| 47 | They each had totally different stories , totally different perceptions of what had gone on in the meetings . |
| 48 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 49 | On 28 May 1986 , Amnesty 's 25th Anniversary , St Clement Danes Church in the Strand , London , rang 5,000 chimes , roughly one for every POC case Amnesty had worked on during the year . |
| 50 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 51 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |
| 52 | Mostly , he supposed , he was happy because she was going to be the most startling singer he had put on to the Hochhauser stage . |
| 53 | At the age of 75 , Olivier visited Richard to see a play he was directing and attended a midnight student production he had put on in a Hollywood garage with other students . |
| 54 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 55 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 56 | Only one figure had subsided on to the ground , his face to the wall , and all their gazes were on him , terrified and arrow-sharp with hatred . |
| 57 | For one thing , it had begun to rain as soon as he had climbed on to the car . |
| 58 | One man had climbed on to the roof of his car . |
| 59 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 60 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |