Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In October 1991 , when the local authority negotiated a long-term foster home placement in Windsor it seems reasonable to suppose then they had already embarked on a plan to move towards adoption . |
| 2 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 3 | Norman , an aggressive nine year old , exploded at a boy walking in front of him who had thoughtlessly trodden on a painting which had fallen onto the floor . |
| 4 | Initially , some progress appeared to have been made at the Jakarta meeting when Sihanouk and Hun Sen announced that they had finally agreed on a compromise formula on the issue of the SNC chair ( Sihanouk as chair , Hun Sen as vice-chair ) . |
| 5 | The elfin-faced Irish singer , just 18 but already on the threshold of success , had finally resolved on a reconciliation . |
| 6 | Provided that all solicitors were competent and willing to make this judgement of themselves it would appear that the scheme had finally settled on a principle which would successfully serve the potential criminal client . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , HTV had generously laid on a Rolls Royce to bring the rest of us from our Frenchay home to Buckingham Palace . |
| 8 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 9 | On the one hand I needed to stress the bus driver 's evidence in order to bolster my case , which was that Carella had somehow stumbled on a clue to Moro 's whereabouts . |
| 10 | According to the report , the two countries had also agreed on a date for Vietnam to restart repaying its debts to Japan . |
| 11 | Buthelezi had repeatedly insisted on a meeting with Mandela on an equal footing and in his capacity as head of Inkatha . |
| 12 | The boys had now decided on a nickname for me : Mona , after Leonardo 's Mona Lisa . |
| 13 | 612 where it was held that a defendant had been validly committed for trial by justices notwithstanding that they had previously embarked on a summary trial but decided before the summary trial was concluded that in the circumstances they should not deal with the case and should commit the defendant for trial . |
| 14 | Denis could hardly hide his smiles , knowing that Uncle Mick had never stepped on a baseball pitch in his life . |
| 15 | You would have thought that what happened at Tottenham had never happened on a football pitch before . |
| 16 | He had rashly embarked on a walking tour in the Moselle region when war was declared , and he spent the night of 2 August 1914 in prison at Trier . |