Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pron] [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an hour or so they are given a brief rest by switching the lights off and then they are tested by being given a choice between attempting to follow the light on which they had been imprinted ( say the red ) and another , unfamiliar light , say the yellow . |
| 2 | He had known the poor child was not robust : this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat , through an English lady , an Oxford acquaintance , then at Nice , who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American family looking out for something really superior in the way of a resident tutor ( 11 ) . |
| 3 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 4 | Sometimes a person would arrive just as the divan on which he had been sleeping was dragged away . |
| 5 | Conscious manipulation of tears is very rare , although most women acknowledged how powerful tears can be and could remember the odd occasion on which they had been used as a weapon when all else failed . |
| 6 | He was remembering again the time when he returned to England fifteen years ago from the tropical island on which he had been left . |
| 7 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 8 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 9 | Although she could have sworn she had blacked out , she still somehow recalled the journey on which she had been taken by the tall man and a few others . |
| 10 | While the new salary was a vast improvement on what it had been , it must be remembered that the salary of the High Master at Manchester Grammar School at the time was £420 , together with house . |
| 11 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 12 | Erm , it was written in eighteen fourteen , and the author , at the time , was watching the bombardment of Baltimore from a British ship on which he had been detained . |
| 13 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |