Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 2 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 3 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 4 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 5 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 6 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 7 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 8 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 9 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 10 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 11 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 12 | In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess . |
| 13 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 14 | When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked . |
| 15 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 16 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 17 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 18 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 19 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 20 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 21 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 22 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 23 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 24 | And suddenly , true to the route Ursula had picked out on the map , they reached the crest and saw Maurice 's car , parked at the far end of the lay-by where he had been told to wait , maroon and solitary against the pale expanse of chalk-smeared turf . |
| 25 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 26 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 27 | David Linacre had dozed off on the sofa one evening when his daughter Heidi came in and asked who was in the shower . |
| 28 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 29 | In those parts of the buildings that were protected against the rains a yellow film , like nicotine staining , had built up on the marble . |
| 30 | At the start of the next session , mindful of the head of steam that had built up on the issue , Ede announced that the Government had decided to recommend the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the possible limitation or modification of the death penalty . |