Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 2 | Temperature — an intense degree of heat — was the route that the big machines , the hot fusion tokamaks , had been following in their attempt to induce the nuclei to meet ; Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had stumbled on another way — intense pressures provided by the natural make-up of solid palladium . |
| 3 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 4 | After a while it seemed to me amusing that such preparations as a wedding involve should surround the plain , pale husk that was me and that no one had commented on this incongruity . |
| 5 | Here we were disturbed by no one , it seemed that the whole world had stopped on this Scottish Sabbath . |
| 6 | Straight after his Open win , Seve had vanished on another crusade , to beat another army , and save another universe . ’ |
| 7 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 8 | That Minton had responded on many levels is evident not only from his paintings but also from an illustrated article which he wrote for Vogue . |
| 9 | Everyone 's solution was subjective , he thought , based on the resentments and jealousies festered in the long , bitter years of internal exile that the Shah had imposed on all those who would not recognize his sole and divinely inspired leadership of Iran . |
| 10 | After an hour or so of that Malm changed his tack and wanted to know whom Stephen had met on that morning walk , everything he had seen . |
| 11 | On 4 April 1579 , at the height of the debate about the proposed marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou , he reported that the Privy Council had met on each of the previous five days from 8. a.m. until suppertime . |
| 12 | As soon as King Henry had breathed his last the barons had turned on each other like ravening wolves , attacking their neighbours and ripe for every type of lawlessness . |
| 13 | I remembered the black tents I had seen on this same spot on my first visit . |
| 14 | I t had been a lightning love I had felt on that bench , I was sure — too sudden , too amazing — but nevertheless love |
| 15 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 16 | It is also problematic what line the US would have taken if France had decided on such a negotiated settlement . |
| 17 | The board had decided on another candidate , an orthodox pathologist with predominantly clinical and descriptive interests and not an experimentalist . |
| 18 | Kadhafi said that the government had decided on this dual response because France — which did not seek extradition of its suspects — had acted " in conformity with international law and did not infringe upon the sovereignty of Libya " . |
| 19 | He warned that the reconciliation process would not progress until the North had moved on this issue . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Her mind , like a trap , had closed on that one word : lover . |
| 22 | He felt a superstitious , almost fatalistic reluctance to look too closely now , in case he discovered some horror he had overlooked on that earlier journey , for toe tender was accepted and the price could not be varied . |
| 23 | And thence to Halifax where they had entered the town in their thousands , led by the women , Sairellen had been pleased to hear , walking four and five abreast , empty-handed and bare-headed as she had herself once walked to York , singing the psalm she too had sung on that day . |
| 24 | Then he pulled down the sheet , which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night , and she lay naked before him . |
| 25 | And he had acted on all of them . |
| 26 | In addition , as the efficacy of a drug can only be assessed accurately when viewed within the context of the associated placebo response , we also calculated the difference between the estimated proportion of patients who had relapsed on each treatment at 26 , 38 , 51 , and 55 weeks , together with the 95% confidence interval for this difference . |
| 27 | Kooijmans said that international bodies had agreed on many rules , but the worldwide campaign against torture had failed to stop it . |
| 28 | This represented the first time that all five states had agreed on all aspects of ending the Cambodian conflict . |
| 29 | These two senior Ministers had agreed on this course before the Cabinet met . |
| 30 | At the start of the conference , the 18 countries which together comprised the European Community and the European Free Trade Area had agreed on this freeze as a common target . |