Example sentences of "had [verb] [pn reflx] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 2 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 3 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 4 | Francisco worked in Admin , but occasionally he doubled as a barman , and he did n't have to explain that he had cut himself on a broken glass . |
| 5 | Karelius had stationed himself on the right flank , a little to the rear of those in the very forefront . |
| 6 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |