Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 2 | Wycliffe had perched himself on a stool between Hilda , who was seated at her desk , and Ralph , who sat on a seat like a chapel pew . |
| 3 | They had left their cabins early to enjoy the fresh morning breeze , and Joseph had perched himself on a coil of rope beside Chuck at the rail to finish his reading . |
| 4 | Imogen had lived in Hampstead , and had been just such an attractive sixth-former when he had met her on a trip to the States . |
| 5 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 6 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
| 7 | He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death . |
| 8 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 9 | She had bought it on a trip to Munich with the League of European Women . |
| 10 | The men were emissaries of Paul Reichmann and were there to question Klein about the story he had told me on a number of occasions . |
| 11 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |
| 12 | Six months ago Teresa Leinin had to put them on a plane to the United States after the High Court ordered they must be sent back to their American father . |
| 13 | I had not doubt that this Ichaelan free-lance , probably some spindly droop with acne and myopia , had found himself on a world where nothing but good old genetics had spawned a race of tall , handsome , muscular people . |
| 14 | He said he had found them on a tip but was convicted of theft by York magistrates . |
| 15 | These moral issues , which troubled those who wished to enjoy the company of animals but felt they had to judge them on a set of human values , have caused less concern in recent years . |
| 16 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 17 | By a stroke of luck , she had spotted it on a colleague 's bookshelf before lunch . |
| 18 | In addition , the Kee affair had put him on a collision course with his parents . |