Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 2 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 3 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 4 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 5 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 6 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 7 | and Schiemann J. , and in the latter by Hoffmann J. The W. H. Smith case took the form of an appeal to the Divisional Court from the Crown Court , by way of case stated , against the conviction of the two defendant stores for Sunday trading ; the Torfaen decision was published after the hearing before the Crown Court and before the hearing before the Divisional Court and , it being plain that the Crown Court had misdirected itself on the effect of article 30 , the Divisional Court quashed the convictions . |
| 8 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 9 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 10 | She gave a little shiver as a goose ran over her grave , and stroked Cas and Poll , who had joined her on the swing-seat . |
| 11 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
| 12 | Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig . |
| 13 | In addition the strategic significance of the railways had impressed itself on the Bolsheviks . |
| 14 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 15 | FOURTEEN months ago Matchbox announced that repeats of the TV series Thunderbirds had caught them on the hop and they would n't be able to supply any tie-in toys for Christmas 1991 . |
| 16 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 17 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 18 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 19 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 20 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 21 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 22 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 23 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 24 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 25 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 26 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 27 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 28 | But her wounds had begun to heal and yesterday she had felt herself on the verge of a promising beginning — an uphill struggle , perhaps , but a definite move towards new happiness . |
| 29 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 30 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |