Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how could he tell Florrie , without explaining what had happened on that night , long ago ? |
| 2 | My master described what had happened on the trackway earlier that day . |
| 3 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 4 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 5 | A friend had said he recalled they had worked on an ocean liner docked in Liverpool after the war alongside men stripping out asbestos , Det Sgt Cedric Jones told the hearing . |
| 6 | She could not believe she had rounded on him in the way she had . |
| 7 | He claimed he had fallen on a bottle . |
| 8 | If they leave wishing it had gone on longer , you 've succeeded . |
| 9 | ‘ You almost make me wish I had enrolled on your course , ’ said Melissa , with a certain lack of sincerity . |
| 10 | ‘ Suppose you had lived on the moon , ’ Stavrogin interrupted … |
| 11 | They might also have been superfluous because he was now saying he had succeeded on his own . |
| 12 | I felt I had stumbled on the city 's ghetto quarter . |
| 13 | ‘ I had just left training school and really thought I had landed on my feet . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you had sailed on the schooner with the others . ’ |
| 15 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 16 | For an instant , startled by that snapping sound , he thought he had trodden on a twig . |
| 17 | But he followed closely behind her and presented himself to her mother with another of the staccato nods he had learned on the parade ground . |
| 18 | ‘ The 10 days ’ delay and the heavy casualties this small force and the RAF who supported them had inflicted on the enemy were of inestimable value at this critical stage of the battle . ’ |
| 19 | I t had been a lightning love I had felt on that bench , I was sure — too sudden , too amazing — but nevertheless love |
| 20 | In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities . |
| 21 | He 'd wondered countless times , ever since that first call it had played on his mind . |
| 22 | Mr Armstrong said : ‘ He made a statement to the police making no complaint against his wife but claiming he had fallen on a knife . ’ |
| 23 | However , she said she had travelled on trains and buses to the Lancashire resort . |
| 24 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But when Kenneth Bowler was treated at hospital and when he made a statement to the police he said he had fallen on a fishing knife when he was drunk . |
| 27 | When I explained what had happened on the train he shook his head and said one should never trust the Moors . |