Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 2 | She thought of the times she had put her hand into Nick 's , how she had sat beside him on the grass only half an hour ago . |
| 3 | The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 . |
| 4 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 5 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 6 | Coy then took the DDI through the report Adam had made to him on the phone . |
| 7 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 8 | Or maybe Veronica had got to him on the subject . |
| 9 | He no longer maintained the stance he had advanced to me on the telephone . |
| 10 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 11 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 12 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 13 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 14 | I realized with a start that the beautiful young woman who had spoken to us on the bank was his wife . |
| 15 | It was the same question he had asked of her on the Ridgery , a question that put the burden of leadership on her . |
| 16 | Grunte had run into him on the forecourt of one of his garages where he had come to buy a second-hand Sierra . |
| 17 | Sutton had recruited Bill Packford , who had worked with him on the Evening News in the old days , to lay out pages for the 7 December dummy edition . |
| 18 | It was suggested in 1948 by two refugees from Nazi-occupied Austria , Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold , together with a Briton , Fred Hoyle , who had worked with them on the development of radar during the war . |
| 19 | Owen had a badly gashed forearm , Cynan some splinters of his own shaft lodged deep under his ribs , and all of them minor cuts and bruises ; but they had left behind them on the crest several of their enemies wounded by lances and arrows , some probably dead . |