Example sentences of "[pron] they had [vb pp] on " in BNC.

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1 Although January had ended with the first significant ground fighting of the war — the Iraqi offensive against Khafji — the Iraqi forces made no further offensive moves , and the allies continued with the air assault which they had begun on Jan. 17 .
2 ‘ So this king , ’ wrote Sir Thomas Gray , ‘ led a gay life in jousts and tourneys and entertaining ladies , until the lords who had been disinherited in Scotland for the cause of himself and his predecessors made supplication to him that he would restore to them their inheritances which they had lost on his account and allow them to take their own measures . ’
3 Since the Survey 's seventh question asked visitors to comment on the exhibitions which they had seen on the day of their visit , it was possible , by noting the number of replies which related to each of the three exhibitions , to discover the number of visitors attracted by each exhibition , whatever their assessment of it .
4 The rest of this section describes in detail how this is all achieved , since there are some problems which can affect your users by allowing them to access more than one LIFESPAN Process , and by your stopping of the LIFESPAN Process to which they had attached on login .
5 They picked their direction by a clump of stunted trees which they had passed on their way up .
6 However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ .
7 Undoubtedly , he was deeply impressed by what they had created on top of the ruins left by the Korean War .
8 She was telling them what they had watched on the breakfast news .
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