Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] on an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job . |
| 2 | She had thrown on an old dress and not much else , and she played with the frying-pan as if it were Pancake Day . |
| 3 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 4 | It was as if they had landed on an alien planet , his fear that of awakening the denizens , giant and menacing . |
| 5 | But , despite the fact that it has capitalised on an unproven reputation ever since , it was not so much health which eventually transformed Brighton as royal patronage and high fashion in which the exercises of the spa served largely as a formal excuse for other , equally demanding , pleasures . |
| 6 | It was just one hundred and seven days since , sailing from exile in Elba with a mere thousand men , he had landed on an empty beach in southern France . |
| 7 | Eden began his premiership in a businesslike fashion even though he had decided on an instant election . |
| 8 | Mah Bow Tan was confirmed as Minister for Communications , a post he had held on an acting basis since July . |