Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] on his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he referring to the damage she had inflicted on his car ? |
| 2 | She was still striving to get herself back together when , to her astonishment , ignoring the file she had placed on his desk , ‘ Vanity being what it is , ’ he commented , ‘ I thought contact lenses were all the go now ? ’ |
| 3 | She went and poured coffee from the pot on the tray she had put on his desk . |
| 4 | When the burning heat in his body had at last broken , she had concentrated on his arm , washing the wound constantly by setting a bowl outside to catch the clean rainwater and then replacing it with the pail , changing the two receptacles again and again . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | He thought about the two girls in the shop doorway , surprised by the detailed impression they had left on his memory . |
| 7 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 8 | He 'd wondered countless times , ever since that first call it had played on his mind . |
| 9 | Bill would roll his head up from where it had fallen on his shoulder and open his eyes cautiously . |
| 10 | It obviously upset Charman and after the sacking he realised the strain it had put on his friendship with Gedge . |
| 11 | After his return Mozart 's compositions included experiments with keyboard concerto writing in the form of arrangements of sonata movements of works by some of the composers he had met on his journeys ( Honnauer , Eckard etc ) ( 8 ) . |
| 12 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 13 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 14 | Winifred had sat for hours in those early days on the sofa , next to Marcus , who moved away , and like a parody of a mad religious discipline , abbreviated his answers , elongated his silences , until he had imposed on his mother a similar pattern of behaviour . |
| 15 | He had auditioned on his own stubborn initiative , although people had warned him that because of his colour he was wasting his time . |
| 16 | As he waited for the executioner , he was dressed in the blue suit that he had worn on his last public appearance . |
| 17 | In that year , represented in Paris by Francois Cothereau , ‘ hautbois du Roy de France living on the rue St Marguerite , parish of St Sulpice ’ he sold to his brother Jean ( ‘ hautbois du Roy living in this city of Paris , rue des Fosses , St Germain des Pres , parish of St Sulpice ’ ) land in La Couture which he had inherited on his mother 's death in 1669 ( document 3 ) . |
| 18 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 19 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 20 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 21 | He had fallen on his head , which was bent under him , and his neck was broken . |
| 22 | And , as soon as she had paid the driver and he had gone on his way she stood for some moments , looking at Ven 's house , photographing it in her mind 's eye because she knew — she would never come this way again . |
| 23 | He was keeping to the awnings , and a passing squall , just as he had foreseen on his departure from Dolmetta that morning , approached from the interior and sailed grandly overhead , steeping the baked stones of the port in a blissful freshness for an interval ; the snails would be coming out , he thought . |
| 24 | But it can also be misleading , for its strength is partly reinforced by the Cardinal 's self-confidence and the place he had reached on his spiritual pilgrimage . |
| 25 | It said that he had reneged on his monetarist beliefs ; that arrogance has been his undoing ; and that his policy lay in ruins . |
| 26 | Once he had decided on his man he moved in with a determination that usually beat the carefully-laid plans of other interested clubs , often to dramatic effect . |
| 27 | Bumbler the man might be , but his unaffected tenderness reminded Agnew of the care he had lavished on his own wife in her dying days . |
| 28 | He would have liked to know who that ‘ client of Harvey Gough & partners ’ had been-Amold Tatham himself , perhaps , using the pension contributions he had withdrawn on his resignation . |
| 29 | He had kept on his hat . |
| 30 | While visiting his house , Gould 's ever-watchful eye was drawn to a large collection of watercolours painted by Sturt of parrots that he had collected on his various excursions . |