Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to risk Mrs Long , and Mrs Travers knew where I had moved on to , so giving her name could cause problems as well . |
| 2 | I had moved on to selling friends ' addresses to the Chief-Corporal , and in return for the names and numbers of two Sloane girlfriends I had got the bed nearest the stove . |
| 3 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 4 | I felt that I had moved on ; my attitudes , my experiences had moved on . |
| 5 | I was totally inexperienced , and on the straight I eased and Phil came past like the Inter-City train I had travelled on . |
| 6 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 7 | Joanne had handled the set-up of the press conference in Glasgow and I had gone on to Newcastle Airport to meet the plane there . |
| 8 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 9 | After the first morning when it appeared in the garden I had gone on giving it food . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the end of it , I was tired but glad , making camp after twenty-three miles , the farthest I had managed on or off tarmac . |
| 12 | I had held on to Lili , and Syl had brought me home insisting that our mothers should stay and go on to dinner with Lili and Robert and the gallery owner as planned . |
| 13 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 14 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 15 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 16 | My heart froze for a second , as if I had put on an elaborate disguise and suddenly been addressed by name — I did n't feel safe any more . |
| 17 | I stood in the church , and looked at the summer flowers I had put on their grave . |
| 18 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 19 | ‘ The passage light , which I had switched on , and — let me see — the scullery light . |
| 20 | Earlier I said that on the whole our food was not bad : salads , fruits and nuts were plentiful but I had taken on my parent 's tastes . |
| 21 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 22 | Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings . |
| 23 | Wardens had yelled at her , she had stumbled over rubble and hosepipes , her path lit by the glare of hundreds of fires , she had been terrified by the throbbing of the engines of the bombers overhead and the crump of bombs , but she had run on . |
| 24 | Shelley looked at the date she had scribbled on to the surgery diary . |
| 25 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 26 | Glasser talks of her as if , in walking out , she had gone on to walk the streets . |
| 27 | She had gone on from the Noble Order of Lady Queen Bees ' meeting to a party given by one of the members , and was by now tired , cross and a little tipsy . |
| 28 | She had gone on and on about it until Lydia 's face had ached from grinning in appreciation of Betty 's praise and frowning in polite dismissal of her wilder flights . |
| 29 | After buying fresh bread she had gone on to the fish market where boxes full of melting ice displayed what was left of the morning 's catch , much of which she did n't recognise . |
| 30 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |