Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 2 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 3 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 4 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 5 | Peter had marched on down the hall . |
| 6 | He had pressed on with the work , permitting no more interruption than common courtesy required , and had joined in the prayer of thanksgiving with a truly heartfelt gratitude not occasioned only by the woman 's departure . |
| 7 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 8 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 9 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 10 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 11 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 12 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 13 | Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 . |
| 14 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 15 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 16 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 17 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 18 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 19 | Lights had come on beyond the doorway . |
| 20 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 21 | The lid had collapsed on to the remains , the sides had fallen outwards , but the two end pieces remained upright . |
| 22 | He had collapsed on to the sofa , holding his face with his hands , shrunken-looking . |
| 23 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 24 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 25 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 26 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 27 | Hampstead had been purchased with the now substantial royalties from Paul 's books , also the first excursion Dinah had made on to the stage since her marriage and the birth of three children . |
| 28 | One owner found that his cat did this only on the floor of a new extension he had built on to the side of his house . |
| 29 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 30 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |