Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many spectators had squatted on the dunes surrounding the 6th , most of them on the Maiden itself . |
| 3 | Historically , the Senate 's claim to a say in the making of foreign policy had depended on the provisions in the Constitution regarding treaty-making . |
| 4 | He had depended on the Britons for support , and may have felt obliged to provide defences : so I argued . |
| 5 | Don Roberto had worked with the Colonel and had acted as cut-out between him and the CIA on the operations which Trent had undertaken on the Americans ' behalf . |
| 6 | Complete silence had fallen on the children . |
| 7 | Two days earlier the human rights organization Amnesty International had reported on the conditions under which the detainees were held , and on allegations of torture . |
| 8 | He explained that he wanted to stay silent until the special trade union review group had reported on the options available . |
| 9 | ‘ I read in the paper the other day that two people had met on the steps of St Paul 's Cathedral after fifty years or something . |
| 10 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 11 | Previous attempts to establish a common tariff had foundered on the objections of the smaller CARICOM members , who feared that it would have a negative impact upon their economies . |
| 12 | Attempts to harness the numerical strength of the casual poor had foundered on the rocks of seeming apathy . |
| 13 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 14 | Supposing I had said on the stairs , do what you like with me , but do n't send me away ? |
| 15 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
| 16 | Rose knew that she had built on the foundations well and truly laid by Grandpa . |
| 17 | In acknowledgement of the urgent need for reform in this area , de Klerk proposed initially that henceforth : ( i ) the death penalty would be limited as an option of sentence to extreme cases , and the area of judicial discretion in the imposition of sentence would be broadened ( currently the death sentence was mandatory for certain crimes ) ; ( ii ) all those sentenced to death would be granted automatic right of appeal — up till now there had been no appeal against this sentence ; ( iii ) no further executions would be carried out until Parliament had decided on the proposals . |
| 18 | Several hundred thousand Spaniards and non-Spaniards had died on the battlefields of Spain between 1936 and 1939 ; at least 200,000 more were to be executed during the next few years , 2,000,000 would suffer imprisonment or forced labour , and millions more again faced a lifetime of discrimination for having fought on behalf of the Republic . |
| 19 | Thousands had died on the battlefields , in rearguard bombing raids and in repressive purges . |
| 20 | It had shone on the thugs who had turned and run . |
| 21 | As late as the 1760s an influential theorist could still argue that an ambassador who , on his own initiative , encouraged sedition within the state to which he was accredited , could be punished by it even with death , while if he had acted on the orders of his master he could be held as a hostage until the latter had given satisfaction . |
| 22 | ‘ They had clashed on the stairs and argued over a girl , ’ said Mr Crigman . |
| 23 | The man holding the torch was , he saw now , one of the local constables he had used on the arms search . |
| 24 | The mere fact , for example , that the investor had sold on the shares would not by itself render the statutory remedy of rescission inapplicable . |
| 25 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 26 | The first great white flakes had melted on the pavements , now it was falling thicker and faster , building up on the window ledges and in the cricks and crannies , turning to slush on the roads as the traffic churned through it . |
| 27 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 28 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
| 29 | The L & NWR Company had entered on the deeds the condition , that in the event the building ceasing to become a school , ownership would revert to the Church . |
| 30 | They had laid on no facilities for the crowds and there were piles of rubbish everywhere . |