Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I have to put on a special overall or something ? |
| 2 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 3 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 4 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 5 | Until now , I had looked on the legendary Frankenstein as a sort of piece-meal dabbler in cadavers , a small-time crank who haunted crypts and graves for mismatched eyes and hands . |
| 6 | Well to keep his rope tight , I had to pull on the other , and the other chap would jerk me back . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're right — and that 's why I 've decided on a different plan , one that will keep us safely out of temptation 's way . ’ |
| 8 | I 've lost on every single share I 've invested in , " was a typical moan . |
| 9 | Even close up the Mad Axe still has an air of quality about it and the finish is one of the best I 've seen on a Korean guitar . |
| 10 | I 've turned on the other tape there . |
| 11 | I know , but , mum that , that was , that was five years ago , I mean I 've moved on a great deal since then |
| 12 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 13 | So for the past year , I 've sat on the Labour Party Trade Union Review Group , a working party set up in the heat of an election defeat , to defuse a potentially damaging row about the strange phenomenon in the party of Labour . |
| 14 | Once I 've settled on the right composition , I invite the sitter back and start serious drawings . |
| 15 | This month I 've concentrated on the standard gauge punchcard models , but there are also finegauge and chunky models . |
| 16 | And one of one of the things that I 've got on a regular basis is the many of the things Harlow Council put on like pop concerts country and western have actually been used by people who who perhaps live outside of Harlow so the Council are now looking at a charging policy but also we should also gon na introduce into the theatre is the leisure card which actually includes that the people actually live in the town local and the reproductional sort of show if they can do so they should buy . |
| 17 | Is the Leader of the House aware that , in the past four days , since we returned from the Christmas recess , I have heard more from Conservative Members about Labour party policy than I have heard on the national executive committee in 12 months ? |
| 18 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
| 19 | It may be objected that my argument defines individualism too narrowly ; for rather than contrasting the properties of individuals as such with those of social wholes , I have focussed on a particular range of traits , and in doing so may be said to have neglected properties to which the individualist can legitimately appeal . |
| 20 | I have reported on the illegal farming to the CO , and now it 's the turn of the Operations Information Officer . |
| 21 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 22 | ‘ I have come on a scientific investigation to rectify the freak effect which brought those poor unfortunates , ’ he waved at the screen , ‘ to this forsaken place . |
| 23 | I have dwelt on the potential capital market and other outside constraints on the plc in order to provide a standpoint from which to view the constraints operating in those cases which are more our concern . |
| 24 | But to the best of my knowledge , the figures I have quoted on the inner northern are without links . |
| 25 | Rebecca 's body has already rejected two kidneys , and she has to rely on a daily cocktail of drugs |
| 26 | She 'd decided on a plain pastoral view of the asylum and its grounds , it was supposed to be routine . |
| 27 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 28 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 29 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you have to go on the damned trip ? ’ |