Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 2 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 3 | Only one figure had subsided on to the ground , his face to the wall , and all their gazes were on him , terrified and arrow-sharp with hatred . |
| 4 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 5 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 6 | On 28 May 1986 , Amnesty 's 25th Anniversary , St Clement Danes Church in the Strand , London , rang 5,000 chimes , roughly one for every POC case Amnesty had worked on during the year . |
| 7 | The lid had collapsed on to the remains , the sides had fallen outwards , but the two end pieces remained upright . |
| 8 | Ari 's spirits rose slightly once the group had bundled on to the highwire . |
| 9 | The five remaining dogs had raced on down the driveway , past the gaping ruin of the buckled gates , and out onto the highway beyond . |
| 10 | All but he wanted to know how Stephen had got on with the police . |
| 11 | Lights had come on beyond the doorway . |
| 12 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 13 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 14 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 15 | He gives an enrapturing spot of rock ‘ n ’ roll , be-bop and soft shoe shuffle in the second act after the cast had larked on with the audience at interval-time and some brave hearts had a bit of a rave-up on stage . |
| 16 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 17 | One man had climbed on to the roof of his car . |
| 18 | Spreading the oilskins out on the floor , she wiped them off , finishing the process with the towel Nathan had tossed on to the worktop . |
| 19 | Peter had marched on down the hall . |
| 20 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 21 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 22 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 23 | The young Lieutenant had ridden on to the blade , and Sharpe had felt nothing . |
| 24 | The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters . |
| 25 | Hampstead had been purchased with the now substantial royalties from Paul 's books , also the first excursion Dinah had made on to the stage since her marriage and the birth of three children . |
| 26 | She turned down the heat quicKly but some of the fat had splashed on to the flames and the blue smoke increased in density . |
| 27 | All of London had poured on to the great open waste , heads craned towards the stake on the brow of a small hill just next to a three-armed gibbet . |
| 28 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 29 | He 'd been found Iying face down too , and the only sign of what had happened was a slight discoloration on the back of his jacket , as though some of the red dye from the trimming had leached on to the body of the black fabric . |
| 30 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |