Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 32 | ‘ For some time now we have operated on a customer-led basis , ’ explained Paul . |
| 33 | In Northern Ireland we have embarked on a major programme of investment covering all sectors of the region 's transportation system . |
| 34 | In Gwent we have embarked on a major study to do this and will be offering a prostate health check to over 10000 men aged between 55 and 70 in a study that is associated with the European programme concerned with early prostatic cancer . |
| 35 | In Heriot 's we take this very seriously , and we have embarked on a major enhancement of our language provision , to give all our pupils a grounding in two languages — either French and German , or French and Spanish , depending on the year of entry . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 38 | They had stopped on a small rise , at Bernice 's insistence , to compare stories and devise plans . |
| 39 | It was as if they had landed on an alien planet , his fear that of awakening the denizens , giant and menacing . |
| 40 | Credit buyers were also asked to rate their satisfaction with the credit arrangement they had used on a five-point scale ( see Table 24 of Appendix I ) . |
| 41 | Their small eyes and poor eyesight , combined with their often murky environment , means they have to rely on a short-range echolocation system to find food . |
| 42 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 43 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |
| 44 | He has lived on a collective farm in Ukraine since 1945 but was flown back to France by a French television station . |
| 45 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |
| 46 | Bob Murray , Sunderland 's chairman , has stressed again this week that Malcolm Crosby has no guarantee of permanently securing the job he has held on a temporary basis since Denis Smith 's sacking in December . |
| 47 | Since then , it has survived on a one-off grant from the Scottish Office and money donated by private trusts , but these too have run out . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 50 | The Oil Ministry announced on March 6 that damage assessment was under way and that it had embarked on a large-scale rehabilitation effort to restore buildings , pipelines and damaged reservoirs . |
| 51 | It had receded on a faint wave of sound , but it was possible to imagine it working hard against the up-grade of the Withcall tunnel cutting . |
| 52 | And he had to put on a brave face as he manned the tombola stall at a primary school Christmas bazaar where his children Adam , seven , and five-year-old Amber were among the revellers . |
| 53 | What was this sudden panic round his heart ? — as though he had stepped on a rotten floorboard and it had fallen through . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Eden began his premiership in a businesslike fashion even though he had decided on an instant election . |
| 56 | He had to rely on a kind-hearted local butcher who gave him two chickens a week to build up his strength . |
| 57 | We checked all but our oilies , hand baggage and briefcases into the airport lock-ups , and after what he had said about the weather , I was glad to see , when we got to the car desk , that he had laid on a four-wheel-drive land-cruiser . |
| 58 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 59 | He had embarked on a serious and very likely dangerous undertaking which , until its conclusion , must precede anything and everything in his life . |
| 60 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |