Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 2 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 3 | The French boy looked up sharply at his father , but the familiar expressionless mask had already settled back on his face . |
| 4 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |
| 5 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 6 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 7 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 8 | It was already beginning to feel as if the last four years had never happened ; as if she were still the confused , angry , raw-nerved girl she had been when he had finally walked out on her . |
| 9 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 10 | She corrected this idea by always wearing a hat , as though she had just looked in on her way to the garden . |
| 11 | She had just started out on her career as a free-lance photographer , with nothing but a little talent , a lot of determination and the best camera money could buy to help her make it . |
| 12 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 13 | They had just set out on holiday in their Mazda car . |
| 14 | ‘ You had best come up on deck if you are to be sick . |
| 15 | Police numbers had doubled , two ambulances had somehow squeezed up on the hill , and the drivers and passengers were out of their Glories , milling around in confusion . |
| 16 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
| 17 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 18 | Doreen Wranklin could n't understand it as she had always paid up on time . |
| 19 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 20 | Three women flashed the route : Isabelle Patissier , Susi Good and Robyn Erbesfield , all three of whom had also topped out on the previous two routes . |
| 21 | ‘ So … so I 'll send them , shall I ? ’ she asked , holding her breath , bracing herself , waiting for the blunt , ‘ You do that ! ’ the violent , ‘ Go to Hell ! ’ the indifferent dismissal , or , even worse , the continuing silence which meant he had really hung up on her . |
| 22 | But the answers never made sense and the fact remained , whatever she had chosen to believe Mark had simply walked out on her and not bothered to come back . |
| 23 | After a couple of hours , Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep . |
| 24 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 25 | Manly-Warringah had earlier missed out on signing All Black no.8 Zinzan Brooke and were desperate to gain Ofahengaue . |
| 26 | In her family , the men had never walked out on their colonial responsibilities . |