Example sentences of "had been put on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the late 1470s pressure had been put on merchants outside London to join the company there , and after some resistance they had to yield ( 64 , pp.153–60 , 172–6 ) . |
| 2 | The controversial £5 million layout had been put on hold after the Bellgrove accident , in which two people died . |
| 3 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
| 4 | Musa had been put on trial in May 1989 for allegedly forming a political party before the ban on party politics had been lifted . |
| 5 | He had been put on trial in May 1991 , in what was seen as an attempt to weaken the nationalist opposition . |
| 6 | Fore-edge paintings had been put on books for centuries , but William Edwards was the first binder to paint landscape scenes on fore-edges which were hidden by gilt and could only be viewed by fanning the leaves of the book . |