Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's jeans and shirt had been tossed on to the rumpled heap made by his sleeping-bag and two dented pillows . |
| 2 | Shards of glass were still falling 12 hours after the blast and computers had been blown on to the pavement . |
| 3 | Just a few hours earlier British troops had been sent on to the streets of Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | On July 14 Ghozali gave evidence to the court about the events of June 1991 , when the army had been called on to the streets of Algiers to combat FIS supporters [ see p. 38312 ] . |
| 5 | Henry had been invited on to the chat show chiefly because the new snooker champion was the guest of honour . |
| 6 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 7 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 8 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |
| 9 | So far the French had been fired on from the field on their left , now they would see an officer on the right of their advance . |
| 10 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 11 | True , gay sexuality had featured with the Beats , with Kerouac 's ambivalent relationship with Ginsberg , his semi-love affair with Neal Cassidy ; and the subject had been touched on by the early underground , but rather in the way that Ezra Pound 's fascism had been treated , as an interesting eccentricity . |
| 12 | In October 1626 he had been drafted on to the loan commission for Yorkshire , and was also a commissioner in June 1627 to finance shipbuilding using recusancy fines , which commissions were headed by Sir John Savile ( later first Baron Savile of Pontefract , q.v . ) . |
| 13 | But the press had already been tipped off : Mrs Simpson 's car had been booked on to the Channel steamer in her own name . |
| 14 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 15 | Aware that he had been taken on by the college as part of a programme of reform , Minton told Edie Lamont : ‘ They have inaugurated a drive to bring it in line with what they call Contemporary Trends . |
| 16 | She was a squat , dusty-looking woman on the threshold of sixty , who had been taken on in the library during the war and whom Mervyn had tried unsuccessfully to dislodge ever since he had become librarian . |
| 17 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 18 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 19 | In the past some craft-trading had been carried on beyond the vicinity , but this and nearly all other economic ties with the Ukraine to the south and their fellow Great Russians to the north had stopped . |
| 20 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 21 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 22 | After their 10km walk they were invited to Backnong for a special lunch that had been laid on by the Canal Dignitaries of the town . |
| 23 | When customers complained , they were blithely informed that while Ma Rainey sang , an electric light had been switched on in the studio . |
| 24 | The initial measures of enforcement had been agreed on by the WEU and NATO in July [ see also pp. 39012-13 ] . |
| 25 | She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home . |
| 26 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 27 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 28 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 29 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 30 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |