Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] have [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told you had to lie on a board |
| 2 | But we you know , one was one would be boiling the the white metal , we 'd we 'd fixed on the and er one would be boiling and pouring the stuff and the other cutting y you know breaking up the the mould sort of thing and piling the stuff out and as fast as we were piling them up , some beggar was creeping in and stealing them . |
| 3 | A friend had said he recalled they had worked on an ocean liner docked in Liverpool after the war alongside men stripping out asbestos , Det Sgt Cedric Jones told the hearing . |
| 4 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 5 | He claimed he had fallen on a bottle . |
| 6 | I felt I had stumbled on the city 's ghetto quarter . |
| 7 | I FELT I had to comment on your England ‘ B ’ article of June 1992 by Paul Stephens . |
| 8 | AS A COPYWRITER AT the agency responsible for advertising the launch of Femidom I felt I had to comment on the remarks made by your testees ( pun intended ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I had just left training school and really thought I had landed on my feet . |
| 10 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 11 | She knew she had to travel on a long , stony road , without help or sympathy . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you had sailed on the schooner with the others . ’ |
| 13 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought we 'd agreed on it . |
| 15 | I thought we 'd picked on Rockhill Farm . |
| 16 | She said she thought the parents needed to be clear about what limits they felt they had to place on Pamela 's behaviour . |
| 17 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 18 | For an instant , startled by that snapping sound , he thought he had trodden on a twig . |
| 19 | ‘ The 10 days ’ delay and the heavy casualties this small force and the RAF who supported them had inflicted on the enemy were of inestimable value at this critical stage of the battle . ’ |
| 20 | And what what did you have to do on the pit face then ? |
| 21 | What else did you have to do on the dredger ? |
| 22 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why did you have to come on the scene , meddling ? |
| 24 | Why did she have to appear on the scene and spoil everything ? |
| 25 | However , she said she had travelled on trains and buses to the Lancashire resort . |
| 26 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 27 | Like this , you see looking for and I said she 's gone on a bike ride ! |
| 28 | I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ . |
| 29 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 30 | With the latter recruitment , Detroit became a city of largely black population ; the automobile industry would not have survived had it had to rely on the sons and daughters of its original workers . |