Example sentences of "had [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W.H. Smith owed no small part of his fortune to the stalls he had placed on every station platform , many of which not only offered a full range of books and papers but operated lending libraries . |
| 2 | She did not pause for an answer , but bent down and snatched up a roll of paper which she had placed on the floor beside her when she first sat down . |
| 3 | That rainwater began to splash over the lenses of two of the torches that Jimmy had placed on the floor , creating a dancing and hellish kaleidoscope of light in the basement . |
| 4 | He was not very good about women 's clothes , only noticing whether they were becoming or not , but he recognised the quality of hers , and of the big leather handbag she had placed on the desk . |
| 5 | Lutyens had been struck by the emphasis she had placed on the word — and on her choice of it ; chaste was not a word Miss Jekyll usually employed when planning her gardens , and Lutyens bore it in mind throughout — hence the austerity to which he adhered on the terraces . |
| 6 | She eased herself into a sitting position and groped for the heavy torch she had placed on the shelf by her bunk . |
| 7 | He was hoping to hit bottles he had placed on the roof of the garage opposite . |
| 8 | The contents of the bowl were left undisturbed for an hour or two , by which time a kind of honeycombed curd had formed on the top , leaving alcoholic whey underneath . |
| 9 | They ran the cell all day , after which time a green crust had formed on the cathode . |
| 10 | As the patents had run out on many ICI fibre Products , so competitors had jumped on the bandwagon and started building plants at a frenzied pace . |
| 11 | And erm but then they 'd all Margaret and erm everybody had jumped on the bandwagon and said , . |
| 12 | There were also reports that some had jumped on the trains as they passed through East Germany , or that the numbers could have included previously uncounted children . |
| 13 | I took a turn on a rope slide and had to sit on a tractor tyre on the way down . |
| 14 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 15 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 16 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 17 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes I had to sit on the tobacco setter , putting plants in the ground , but one summer was enough for me , ’ she recalls . |
| 19 | Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims . |
| 20 | A 12-piece ensemble of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by international musician Carl Davis had gathered on the platform at Hooton . |
| 21 | It was , to his delight , leaking but still seaworthy ; but an interested crowd of MacIans had gathered on the shore , and even Lachlan could see that to row up Kentra Bay to attack Arivegaig , with an audience eagerly running ahead to arrange a warm welcome for him , was scarcely sensible . |
| 22 | He also used the sea-beet Roger had gathered on the shore in a soup , and packed it into an opera hamper for an alfresco supper at a performance of Don Pasquale at nearby Castle Ward that evening . |
| 23 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 24 | The Brigadier beamed and the Brigade Major returned the salutes of the local dignitaries who had gathered on the pavement just outside the restaurant . |
| 25 | Yet it was Everton who had the clearer second half opportunities after manager Howard Kendall had gambled on the pace of substitute Stuart Barlow by introducing him as early as the 50th minute . |
| 26 | A man in Chippenham , Wilts , had to clamber on the roof of his car after being marooned by floods . |
| 27 | Lewis was perfectly correct , even politically correct , to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first . |
| 28 | On Sept. 19 the RJO announced that it was freezing his release because Israel had reneged on a pledge to release 80 Arab detainees in the earlier transfer — 20 more than the 51 prisoners and nine bodies which were handed over . |
| 29 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 30 | The decorative potential of ivory and its pleasant feel were first explored by Upper Palaeolithic man , but more sophisticated uses of the material had to wait on the development of more complex societies marked by more or less pronounced hierarchies . |