Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In what way ? ’ he asked softly , his tone completely changed , as if he knew they had come to tread on sensitive ground . |
| 2 | The following day , Jan. 14 , however , State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler described as a " definite change of position " the strict neutrality the US administration had decided to adopt on this question . |
| 3 | According to Subaire the new party would serve Moslems in the enclave who for years had had to rely on other parties to include Moslem representatives among their candidates . |
| 4 | If evolutionary progress had had to rely on single-step selection , it would never have got anywhere . |
| 5 | He himself would have been desperately pushed if he had had to manage on two-thirds of his salary until Christmas every year . |
| 6 | Anything like the commotion that ensued , the hurricane deck and one of the steamer 's boats which was hung aloft broke its range so far , but some ladies who had got settled on that side had to be led down stairs dripping wet . |
| 7 | We eventually managed to reconcile the figures , when we took into account the large number of people who had volunteered to serve on regular engagements in order to participate , but who had been trained as territorial soldiers . |
| 8 | There , Mortimer conducted a briefing for some fifty of his men , who had volunteered to go on that night 's operation . |
| 9 | I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit . |
| 10 | However , there was unease among conservative KMT members not only at his Taiwanese ( as opposed to mainland Chinese ) origins but also at his calls for rapid reform , exemplified by the 1990/91 budget which had increased spending on foreign policy by 50 per cent but decreased defence spending . |
| 11 | In 1984 the Inland Revenue 's Special Investigations Section , led by W , investigated the company 's affairs , and it was concluded that Stipplechoice had ceased trading on 25 October 1977 when the Meadowbank development was sold . |
| 12 | The company denied that it had ceased trading on 25 October , and the accounts included purchases , unrelated to the Meadowbank development , which substantially exceeded the value of stock in the period 's balance sheet . |
| 13 | I had begun to look on that photograph as a mascot for my enterprise . |
| 14 | In fact , he said by now they had begun to get on each other 's nerves . |
| 15 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 16 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |
| 17 | The flies had returned to cluster on two small lakes of dried blood , all that remained here to show where the girl had lain , apart from the lingering smell . |