Example sentences of "[conj] had [pron] [verb] on " in BNC.
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1 | Desmond Clarke would no doubt have summoned up a helicopter to take the two naked ladies on a nationwide author tour and had them descending on bookshops by parachute . |
2 | When Vigier de la Rousselle dared to advocate the continuation of appeals to Paris in 1312 , the whole matter was taken up in a very ‘ political ’ way by the authorities in Bordeaux , who accused Vigier of contempt of ducal authority and had him executed on a charge which was , in effect , that of treason . |
3 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
4 | He was curled in a rickety chair and had it balanced on two of its legs , one foot braced against the column . |
5 | She was mysterious about herself but had plenty to say on the subject of her boyfriends . |
6 | But had she come on a journey , or what ? |
7 | But had it happened on the river ? |