Example sentences of "she had [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 2 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 3 | She had to go on a bus actually . |
| 4 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 5 | But Dexter knew Blanche had benefited from a growing friendship with a woman she had met on a management course at the police college at Bramshill — a former commander in the Met who had taken to lecturing after a heart attack . |
| 6 | She had settled on a carpet which had been unrolled on the sand in front of her house and the family had gathered around her . |
| 7 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
| 8 | she gave the example of a hedgehog pattern which she had used on a sweater . |
| 9 | Soon after joining the WSPU in 1906 she had embarked on a campaign of disruptive action which by the time she went to Epsom for the Derby had brought her numerous prison sentences for offences such as obstruction , throwing bricks , setting fire to pillar-boxes and smashing windows in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | She had put on a bit of weight . |
| 11 | Then she had started on a career that had always appealed to her : in the world of antiques . |