Example sentences of "had [verb] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year we cracked an ex-display tank in this office — that was an adequate 6mm three footer and we had placed it on polystyrene tiles on top of two filing cabinets which were less than even . |
| 2 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 3 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 4 | The previous week she had posted it on Tuesday , having written it the day after Effie 's death in a white heat of sorrow and indignation . |
| 5 | And how he had pressed it on her ! ( pp. 258 — 9 ) |
| 6 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 7 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 8 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 9 | I had seen it on someone 's face recently . |
| 10 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 11 | Attendance at the ball indicated considerable standing in the adult world and he had a sudden savage desire to show his parents , who would be there , that he had made it on his own , without any help from them . |
| 12 | Moreover , he had written it on pages that he could not at this moment tear up into big pieces and then into smaller pieces . |
| 13 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 14 | I asked him why he had to explore it on me . |
| 15 | I had missed it on its first appearance , around 1974 , but considering the excellent standards of Baudo 's other Honegger recordings for the same label , it would be a mistake to overlook it entirely . |
| 16 | The owner of Cliff Cottage was a Canadian who , returning to his roots and seduced by nostalgia , had bought it on impulse as a possible holiday home . |
| 17 | She had bought it on a trip to Munich with the League of European Women . |
| 18 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 19 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 20 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 21 | On certain feast days , the gates of the inner sanctuary where the reliquary was kept-were opened , and it became visible , in its tabernacle behind the statue ; when they were shut , visitors had to peep through the bars : the grille was shiny where hands had gripped it on either side to get a glimpse . |
| 22 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 23 | Because we forgot to do , we forgot to do the spelling test last Friday , so we had to do it on Monday so we did n't get any spelling this week , so right now we did n't have a spelling test , this is brilliant , guess what we do now ? |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 25 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 26 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 27 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 28 | Jane suspected that she had brought it on herself . |
| 29 | But just about everyone else thought he had brought it on himself . |
| 30 | Perhaps he had brought it on them by not being there . |