Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 2 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 3 | For those children going straight to foster families , without even the support of the friends they had made on the journey , natural feelings had to be forced down as adjustments to a new environment and a new language were made . |
| 4 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 5 | They had danced on the night winds through the dark hours and before dawn she had flown safely home , filled with a new and fierce joy which was the warmth of Fenna 's fiery breath and the width and grace of freedom from gravity . |
| 6 | Since coming back to London on his £10 a week contract he had teamed up again with Stanley Baker and they had gone on the rampage . |
| 7 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 8 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 9 | He bought half a dozen other newspapers and read every word they had printed on the subject , but none added much to his knowledge . |
| 10 | However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ . |
| 11 | She would be just like the fairy dancers they had seen on the stage , and her feet would n't look big and flat in those shoes because they had lovely pointy toes , and little pom-poms on them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now the farmer and his wife had remained in the filed , laughing over the trick they had played on the tiger . |
| 14 | He denied that they had fired on the demonstrators and also claimed to have acted as an intermediary in organizing the meeting between the government and opposition on May 10-11 . |
| 15 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 16 | They had stopped on the high point , where they could look across their own little valley to the dark sea , and back into another valley lined with lush woods . |
| 17 | Boats were for hire by the hour and they had rowed on the lake . |
| 18 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 19 | Guided by the Emperor 's own harsh wisdom and foresight , they had experimented on the very stuff of Chaos and upon slaves permanently immobilized in nutrient vats , and upon prisoners . |
| 20 | They had landed on the Seringapatam Reef , 600 miles form Darwin and 267 miles from Koepang . |
| 21 | They had hit on the idea of advertising ( discreetly ) in things like the Financial Times and the Economist . |
| 22 | Only minutes after they had pressed on the Greystones line , British Lion prop Nick Popplewell sealed his side 's success with a galloping 30 metre run and score . |
| 23 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 24 | In sharp contrast , three quarters of all newspaper readers said that the papers they had read on the day of the interview were biased in their coverage of the Conservative and Labour parties , though less than half said their papers gave biased coverage of the Alliance . |
| 25 | Three-quarters of all newspaper readers in our panel agreed that the papers they had read on the day of the interview were biased in their coverage of the Conservative and Labour parties , though less than half said their papers gave biased coverage of the Alliance . |
| 26 | In desperation , Ari started marking the days off on a chart , just so she could see the rime they had left on the road diminishing . |
| 27 | Soon the cluster of buildings would be as deserted as the plague village they had left on the moor 's edge . |
| 28 | They had settled on the balcony again when the doorbell rang . |
| 29 | Cursing under his breath , and still keeping his face averted from Huy , the man threw a handful of small silver bars in front of the fat woman , who scooped them up almost before they had settled on the surface of the table . |
| 30 | She was telling them what they had watched on the breakfast news . |