Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | Or , if you 've over-ordered on the chestnuts for your turkey stuffing , how about chestnut soup ? |
| 17 | Rose knew that she had built on the foundations well and truly laid by Grandpa . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
| 20 | Too weak to do either , she had gone on the streets . |
| 21 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
| 22 | She had worked on the canals during World War II . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 25 | I was up afford dawn getting all ready , setting the china , both ours and what we 'd borrowed on the trestles in the orchard , helping Gideon to put the casks of beer in the yard , ready for the men to fill their harvest bottles , and fetching water from the well for the tea . |
| 26 | When we 've decided on the names , we then have to find the best person to approach for each potential guest , and that can be like a detective job . |
| 27 | lists we 've pencilled on the backs of envelopes . |
| 28 | Could I tell your listeners a little bit about the good news that 's in the budget , because we 've talked we 've focused on the minuses so far , but there 's a lot of plusses as well . |
| 29 | Now , you 'll notice the numbers in the brackets are some indication of the amount of time that we spent , the relative amount of time that we 've spent on the subjects . |
| 30 | Yeah we divided them all up , but if me or Jan needed to refer to anything we 'd recognize the information that we 've put on the envelopes quicker than we 'll recognize the stuff that he 's put in there |