Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched in anxious silence as I ran a hand over the repairs he had begun on Masquerade . |
| 2 | A refutation of the aspersions he had cast on the personal conduct of the separatists , it concluded with an appeal to her antagonist to ‘ receive admonition , though it be from a woman ’ . |
| 3 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 4 | He had written on behalf of a friend ‘ whose great curiosity in fruit has been terribly disappointed by the nurserymen ’ . |
| 5 | Terrified to telephone and hear him say the words he had written on paper , she collapsed ultimately into a drunken stupor — a woman who had never previously drunk more than a half bottle of wine . |
| 6 | But neither was ever in contention , as Chip Beck , one of last year 's American Ryder Cup team , regained the lead he had lost on Saturday to win by a stroke from Greg Norman and Mike Standly . |
| 7 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 8 | Ernest and he had met on the golf links and both shared a love of collecting antiques . |
| 9 | After his return Mozart 's compositions included experiments with keyboard concerto writing in the form of arrangements of sonata movements of works by some of the composers he had met on his journeys ( Honnauer , Eckard etc ) ( 8 ) . |
| 10 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 11 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 12 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 13 | With his gruff , Cockney drawl and lack of pretentiousness , he was the first person he had met on the production side of TV London who was not part of the middle-class mafia , and who seemed relaxed and at ease with himself . |
| 14 | Robert recognized him now : it was the restaurant-owner he had met on the day he had brought home Hasan — Mr Khan . |
| 15 | Mr Duff said he had been approached by Libyan lawyer Dr Ibrahim Legwell , whom he had met on August 4 in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 17 | At this date the king demanded that the archbishop should confirm some military tenancies which he had created on the archbishop 's lands during the vacancy . |
| 18 | Winifred had sat for hours in those early days on the sofa , next to Marcus , who moved away , and like a parody of a mad religious discipline , abbreviated his answers , elongated his silences , until he had imposed on his mother a similar pattern of behaviour . |
| 19 | We sat in silence then , that same peculiar silence he had imposed on the beach the Saturday before . |
| 20 | He had tripped on a gas-lid in the road and fractured his patella so his wife was busy bandaging him up . |
| 21 | He had auditioned on his own stubborn initiative , although people had warned him that because of his colour he was wasting his time . |
| 22 | As he waited for the executioner , he was dressed in the blue suit that he had worn on his last public appearance . |
| 23 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
| 24 | He was still wearing the elegantly tailored suit he had worn on that occasion . |
| 25 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 26 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 27 | Vang Pao had earlier told the Bangkok Post newspaper of the formation of a " revolutionary government of Laos " which had established itself in Laos and which he had visited on certain occasions . |
| 28 | ‘ We are worried that the damage to the ankle is so serious that there will never be a full recovery for professional sports activity , ’ said Professor Marc Martens after he had operated on the AC Milan player for more than an hour in Antwerp . |
| 29 | The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm . |
| 30 | After he had battered on the door for a couple of minutes , the lock was turned and the door opened a crack . |