Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the border in North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic within Russia ) , a group of Russian " volunteers " had arrived in late February in the regional capital , Vladikavkaz , according to the Georgian daily Sakartvelos Respublika of Feb. 27 , ostensibly to " protect Russia 's southern borders " , and a small number of these " volunteers " , apparently unarmed , had travelled on by helicopter to Tskhinvali , the South Ossetian capital . |
| 2 | ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham . |
| 3 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 4 | He opened a second door , which again had an elegant stained glass transom above it , and Belinda found it led to an open veranda that must connect with the one they had sat on for drinks . |
| 5 | She had come on to Benedict 's from an interview with her bank manager . |
| 6 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 7 | The taxpayer had carried on in Hong Kong the business of exploiting rights by granting sub-licences to overseas customers . |
| 8 | Haynes had moved on since Lady Chatterley . |
| 9 | The bill poster had moved on to dryer pastures and all the gas-lamps were now lit . |
| 10 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 11 | Then half way through the following week , when we had moved on to Lichfield , Constance came back . |
| 12 | She and Antonietta had begun to talk about fashion and materials and had moved on to curtains when Gennaro returned . |
| 13 | The talk had moved on to Brazil 's thieves , particularly Rio 's , leaving me feeling vulnerable again — like a man with one leg . |
| 14 | Before he had a chance to respond , Clara had moved on to Tracy Johnson . |
| 15 | A valuable suggestion came from a young Dane , who after a brief stay in Cambridge had moved on to Rutherford 's Manchester where the action then was . |
| 16 | Valley Parade 's answer to the dream team never linked up during their playing days — Pearson had moved on from Manchester United to West Ham before Stapleton , Ireland 's most capped player , joined the Old Trafford side in the early eighties . |
| 17 | Once business had moved on from Earth , parts of the Tangle fell unoccupied . |
| 18 | After the Council had moved on from chapter II , Cardinal Ottaviani , without protest from any of those presiding , returned to it in defiance of the rules . |
| 19 | They were burning to know how he had got on in New York , and Isobel asked him . |
| 20 | Resisting the temptation to call his bluff by pretending someone was with her , she asked how he had got on in Glasgow . |
| 21 | Within a few years , he had sold on to George Ford , in whose family the mill remained for over 30 years . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Sandra had stayed on with Saffery Champness after the merger . |
| 23 | Similarly with Abdullah Muhammad : he had married Salha 's granddaughter ; another sister had married Salha 's grandson ; and yet another sister was mother of another of the girls who had stayed on at school . |
| 24 | A few seconds later we were plunging thought atmosphere , and Posi told me cheerfully that one of the in-phase ceptors had locked on to Mala 's position . |
| 25 | Lights had sprung on inside Casa Sciorto 's rooms , spilling glowing pools of gold into the courtyard . |
| 26 | Kate managed to persuade one of the drivers of the hire cars Carlisle Flint had laid on for sponsors to drop her back to the hotel where the team were based . |
| 27 | If everything he had projected on to Zoser was true , or a true picture of his own feelings , why had he not taken the action upon himself ? |
| 28 | The bus driver had given chase , had managed to signal to a police car and the chase had gone on through Kirkintilloch and Milton of Campsie before Cook lost control in Birdston Road . |
| 29 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 30 | Charlotte had gone on to university ; Luke was now at sixth-form college . |