Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 2 | The story was , that unused to concealing money about his person , he had been robbed on the train and had had to return home . |
| 3 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 4 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 5 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 6 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 7 | He had been born on Easter Day , surely the most hopeful date in all the year . |
| 8 | He had been born on a Junker estate at Schönhausen in Brandenburg in 1815 , and his family had moved to Kniephof in Pomerania soon afterwards . |
| 9 | He had been born on March 30th 1853 . |
| 10 | According to da Motta Veiga , he had been dismissed on Oct. 19 [ see p. 37773 ] for resisting pressure from Faria [ see also above ] to lend US$20,000,000 and to supply $40,000,000 worth of oil to the Voe Canhedo business group , which owned a 48 per cent stake in the newly privatized VASP airline formerly controlled by the state of Sao Paulo [ see p. 37710 ] . |
| 11 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 12 | The university student had applied for help under the NHS Low Income Scheme , but said he had been assessed on a £300 loan he did not take out , which put him 39p in credit and not entitled for help . |
| 13 | For Mr Poher this long-drawn out struggle was something new — on the seven previous occasions he had been elected on the first ballot . |
| 14 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 15 | He had been named on the Munster Railway Cup panel for the semi-final meeting with Leinster . |
| 16 | Although he had been convicted on the king 's own record of his treason , a device used by Edward I against his Scottish enemies , many contemporaries thought that the judgement was of dubious legality . |
| 17 | On the second visit Mr. Burgess was given instructions different from those he had been given on the first visit . |
| 18 | And besides the coincidence of his getting a new handler , without explanation , right after the disaster , Coleman could not help remembering the schoolboy password routine he had been given on joining the DIA . |
| 19 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 20 | He had been seen on several levels of the North Star site . |
| 21 | Finally , in the early afternoon , he had been summoned on board the tug to try and resolve the ‘ liddle difficulty ’ that had arisen . |
| 22 | He had been killed on board a ship taken by the Moors in the Middle Seas . |
| 23 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 24 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 25 | He had been invited on the recommendation of Alan Mackenzie who was at that time Chaplain Secretary to the Salisbury Diocesan Association for the Deaf , of which Viscount Cranbourne was an active member . |
| 26 | On each previous occasion he had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 27 | Feeling increasingly nervous as his appointment drew near , Morris was ushered into a vast boardroom , where the door was flung open by ‘ a giant of a man who looked as if he had been fed on rum all his life ’ : . |
| 28 | Detained in July 1991 , he had been freed on bail in November and had apparently slipped bail . |
| 29 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 30 | However , he had been rearrested on April 12 , immediately after his arrival in Donetsk to attend a rally of striking miners [ for miners ' strike see above ; pp. 38129-30 ] , and had been re-released only on May 12 . |