Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
2 | Supposing I had said on the stairs , do what you like with me , but do n't send me away ? |
3 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
4 | Having perfected each manoeuvre in the flat water , I could then sail down the estuary to the open sea and practise what I had learned on the waves . |
5 | I contemplate a quick thirty minutes in my sleeping bag , but by the time I 've checked on the sentries again it 's too late . |
6 | " Many 's the time I 've stood on the terraces at Ibrox . " |
7 | I 've fallen on the stairs . |
8 | I 've lived on the streets since I was a child , cold , hungry , among people who are always drunk and fighting . |
9 | I 've gone through phases when I had seven effects pedals in front of me and then I 've concentrated on the pedals rather than my playing , and that 's wrong . ’ |
10 | These are what I 've got on the disks you see . |
11 | The Australian kookaburra has a very distinctive call , which I am sure I have heard on the soundtracks of films from other locations in Africa , South America or the Florida Everglades . |
12 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
13 | I have concentrated on the articles , ‘ Notes towards a Definition of Culture ’ , rather than the less tentatively titled Notes towards the Definition of Culture because the book , while refining and adding to the argument , occludes that argument 's clarity through continual divagation and a tendency to over-engage in discussion with Eliot 's own contemporaries , many now forgotten . |
14 | If any readers would like to receive a free copy of an information sheet I have produced on the types of environmental audits and what they can achieve they should write to me at the address below : |
15 | David Bonser commented : ‘ The completion of construction is a tremendous team success which has built on the efforts of many people over many years . |
16 | More extensive , however , are the vast sheets of basaltic lavas which have formed on the continents at various times in the past and are referred to as continental flood basalts . |
17 | Best wishes to Vera Reeves , a member from this area , who has embarked on the Teachers Training Course and will , we are certain , help carry on the Medau tradition in Hertfordshire . |
18 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
19 | Or , if you 've over-ordered on the chestnuts for your turkey stuffing , how about chestnut soup ? |
20 | Rose knew that she had built on the foundations well and truly laid by Grandpa . |
21 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
22 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
23 | Too weak to do either , she had gone on the streets . |
24 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
25 | She had worked on the canals during World War II . |
26 | He sold his tape to The Sun and was later exposed as the ‘ supersnoop ’ who had eavesdropped on the royals . |
27 | Darwin was eager to emphasise the reputation of the scientists who had worked on the descriptions for each volume . |
28 | As far as Bill O'Farrell , who had worked on the pumps on the forecourt of Grunte 's first garage ? |
29 | He been with people who had lain on the tracks to try to stop the special trains bringing out 7,600 refugees from Prague and climb on board . |
30 | If you have relied on the services of external designers to produce artwork it is foolish to imagine that internal staff with no training can achieve similar results . |