Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In anticipation of an army coup , Croatia and Slovenia had placed on alert the security forces under their control — the police and the newly formed gendarmerie , the so-called specijalci . |
| 2 | As planning progressed the four groups into which the staff were easily divided ( because they had taught on four different sites ) came together in their views . |
| 3 | The things they had grazed on lay around the bed — the remnants of a baguette , some salami , tomatoes , a pot of cottage cheese , a big wooden bowl of fruit . |
| 4 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 5 | Temperature — an intense degree of heat — was the route that the big machines , the hot fusion tokamaks , had been following in their attempt to induce the nuclei to meet ; Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had stumbled on another way — intense pressures provided by the natural make-up of solid palladium . |
| 6 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 7 | After a while it seemed to me amusing that such preparations as a wedding involve should surround the plain , pale husk that was me and that no one had commented on this incongruity . |
| 8 | As Caparo showed , there had to be a specific relationship between the function that the defendant was requested to perform and the transaction in relation to which the plaintiff said he had relied on proper performance . |
| 9 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 10 | Here we were disturbed by no one , it seemed that the whole world had stopped on this Scottish Sabbath . |
| 11 | Pleas for housing made at council meetings , he said , had fallen on deaf ears . |
| 12 | For a few seconds she thought her outburst had fallen on deaf ears , then Rune said softly , ‘ Yes , of course , you 're right . |
| 13 | The acceptance of the R.A.F. mission , with its hardship of travel to distant and nasty places and audiences of anything but the kind he was humanly fitted to deal with , lonely , cheerless , embarrassed journeys leaving little behind but doubt whether any seed had fallen on good soil ; ali this was in its way an imitation of St. Paul . |
| 14 | Their marriages had fallen on stony ground but it seemed to me there was still hope . |
| 15 | In May 1856 , two months after his speech in Moscow , the tsar met Nazimov at Brest and discovered that , in the north-west , his words had fallen on fruitful soil . |
| 16 | This vision of a featureless future was not only dreadful in itself , but appeared to mock the efforts of those who , like Job , tried to do God 's will , but had fallen on evil days . |
| 17 | She was not impressed when her spouse informed her there was a member of the gentry below , for the only visitors of that sort to frequent her humble hostelry were those who had fallen on evil times . |
| 18 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 19 | Racking the brains because a friend had fallen on hard times — the engine of his old VW has dropped a valve . |
| 20 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 21 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |
| 22 | There , Stirling heard by radio that Tripoli had fallen on 23 January , and thus Jordan 's mission was vital . |
| 23 | By Thursday no Iraqi missile had fallen on Turkish soil , but the debris of a misfired Patriot anti-missile missile had , and air-raid sirens had gone off in Adana . |
| 24 | For years before becoming president , Reagan had harped on conservative economic themes . |
| 25 | Straight after his Open win , Seve had vanished on another crusade , to beat another army , and save another universe . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Poor old Home Office ’ , Soskice had minuted on one file . |
| 27 | They had sat on opposite sides of the empty fireplace in the drawing room for some time without speaking , each wondering how the subject could be broached . |
| 28 | Peirson had resigned on 1st February 1651 , and there were two candidates for the post , William Duncan and Thomas Coombes . |
| 29 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 30 | That Minton had responded on many levels is evident not only from his paintings but also from an illustrated article which he wrote for Vogue . |