Example sentences of "had [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parsons did not substantially alter this view , and as a result lost the stress Freud had placed on conflict . |
| 2 | I had to carry on walking . |
| 3 | There were two GIs in charge — the driver and a sentry guard — and Eric had to sit on top of a pile of waterproof mailbags . |
| 4 | Apologies for those who had to sit on plastic seats . |
| 5 | But yesterday 's Daily Mail said , under the front-page headline ‘ This Bankrupt Chancellor , ’ that Mr Lawson had betrayed the people and his party ; had reneged on monetarism ; and should go . |
| 6 | More awkward still , since Laura was not on board , he was obliged to lock up before going to the office , and had to wait on board , with his brief-case and umbrella , determinedly not listening , while Nenna went down to the saloon . |
| 7 | If he was right , and he sent up a silent prayer that he was , it could be he had stumbled on Angel One 's secret escape route . |
| 8 | Read out aloud , it seemed to bear out word for word what Alfred Wells had recalled on oath in court . |
| 9 | Would you have difficulties if your tank burst and you had to claim on insurance for the resulting damage to furniture and fittings ? |
| 10 | The same rich sound Jess had heard on board the brig . |
| 11 | Training programmes were at different stages of development , with the effect that staff interviewed had received on average eleven hours ' training in one area , with between five and six hours in the other districts . |
| 12 | " He also laid before the Meeting an account of the expenses he had incurred in travelling & c during the progress of the building , as also his charge of Commission , together amounting to £388 13 8d of which he had received on account £100 , Whereupon the Committee were pleased to order the balance to be paid him . " |
| 13 | One week and the changes had fastened on Holly , winter leaves sticking to lawn grass . |
| 14 | If radio had depended on advertising revenue to operate on its 1940s scale , TV would have killed it . |
| 15 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 16 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |
| 17 | We were afraid , but we often had to go on shore to get more water . |
| 18 | We were afraid , but we had to go on shore . |
| 19 | No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean . |
| 20 | Men with malaria now had to go on patrol . |
| 21 | Yes and then being with government people , they had to go on trek |
| 22 | The lawyers commented that the Minister was giving detainees the message that if they wanted their demand for freedom to be taken seriously they had to go on hunger strike and become very ill . |
| 23 | Had to go on duty in my Sunday ones ; got them wet through … |
| 24 | You had to go on Governor 's app [ put in an application to the Governor ] to ask to get your toenails cut . |
| 25 | For example , the Agricultural Department of what was then British Kenya , when faced with the Wakamba who had marched on Government House as a protest against compulsory destocking in 1938 , said : |
| 26 | She said that the baby had suffered a fit , and she had fallen on top of him . |
| 27 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 28 | It was the pot of white paint that dropped + had fallen on Nutmeg but he had been too scared to notice . |
| 29 | At the Restoration of Charles II , the church which had been used by the Bedford Congregation was returned to the Church of England and its members had to meet on village greens and in barns . |
| 30 | Within hours Bull told Detective Superintendent Malcolm Hargreaves the hunt had to concentrate on north Wales . |