Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.

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1 Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true .
2 The three Miss Lovelocks had seated themselves on the window-seat , their silvery heads nodding and trembling , and their glasses , as Ella was not unsurprised to see , quite empty .
3 She had what was termed a comfortable figure , but her face was thin , her nose sharp and her voice seemed to take its pattern from her features , just as Mick had described her on the way here ; although his Aunt Alice was sharp of nose and of tongue , she was broad in the shoulders and warm in heart , he had said .
4 I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her .
5 When Michele had settled her on the swing-seat , her legs up , her back against one padded arm , he sat down on a bench opposite and , eyes narrowed against the sun , invited , ‘ Go ahead . ’
6 She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen .
7 In that minute Troy had kissed her on the lips .
8 Lyall , who like the 42-year-old McGiven had his career cut short by injury at West Ham , groomed McGiven in the way that Ron Greenwood had groomed him on the coaching ladder .
9 Sorge had asked him on the way out of Washington .
10 God had to do something on the cross , in Christ , in order that his love which he has for us as sinners might become forgiveness for us in reality .
11 More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee .
12 He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband .
13 Buckmaster had hired him on the spot .
14 Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel .
15 FOURTEEN months ago Matchbox announced that repeats of the TV series Thunderbirds had caught them on the hop and they would n't be able to supply any tie-in toys for Christmas 1991 .
16 Karelius had stationed himself on the right flank , a little to the rear of those in the very forefront .
17 Mr Greenwald has now been appointed chairman of Tatra and Mr Shelby and Mr Rutherford have joined him on the board .
18 Like Malone , Anderson has laid it on the line to his players .
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