Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNIVERSITIES ' rugby , poised to sign a long-term sponsorship contract , has missed out on an immediate injection of £35,000 after an embarrassing hitch resulted in the deal being kicked firmly into touch by student authorities . |
| 2 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 3 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 4 | Railway enthusiasts , understandably , have let off steam about the matter and say the town has lost out on a major tourist opportunity . |
| 5 | PAUL Gascoigne has splashed out on a secret honeymoon for his sister . |
| 6 | The club 's Jarrow born manager Jimmy Mullen ( Backtrack , December 10 ) was obliged to send a deputy to last Friday 's manager of the year awards the entire team has shoved off on a sponsored fortnight in Bermuda . |
| 7 | The W.C. , however , was outside , and I used to indulge in a small secret smile when , having crept out on a freezing night to the little ‘ necessary house ’ , I must needs sit facing an outdated calendar showing a picture of ‘ A Sunny Haven ’ . |
| 8 | The more serious test came that evening when , having lunched out on a huge cote de boeuf , we were unexpectedly presented with the full fruits of our labours at dinner . |
| 9 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 10 | Mature students with young families , who are on their own financially and are burdened with the heaviest of financial commitments , are having to scrape by on an inadequate student grant and an even more inadequate student loan . |
| 11 | Alan was the sort of driver who would have gone out on an ice-skating rink . |
| 12 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |
| 13 | She was neither rich enough nor impressionable enough to have walked out on a well-paid job simply in order to indulge a vapourish mood . |
| 14 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |
| 15 | Sanchia Holmes , manageress of the Framework clothes shop , said Saturday was usually their busiest day and they had missed out on a good deal of custom . |
| 16 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , claimed the council had missed out on a major tourist attraction . |
| 17 | The reference to the tent meant either that ‘ John Parsons ’ had written it , and was hoping to see me around , or that they had teamed up on a declared truce . |
| 18 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 19 | We had barged in on an 18-day course on Bioregionalism at Schumacher College , in the Old Postern at Dartington , conducted by Kirkpatrick Sale . |
| 20 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Preservation Society , said the town had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 21 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 22 | But he had ridden up on a valiant steed with all the trappings of chivalrous knighthood . |
| 23 | Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism . |
| 24 | There 's little hope of much change from a fiver once you 've splashed out on a basic box of 12 . |
| 25 | And they stormed it , it 's built up on a high , you 'll see the photo of it when , where it and they protected , there 's a film about it , where the erm |
| 26 | High prices and a determination to stick to plain , some say ‘ dull ’ pieces , meant that they have missed out on a growing market for decorative items in the lower price range , while the move to new premises essentially changed their image from a shop to a ‘ view by appointment ’ private gallery . |
| 27 | ‘ As a farmer whose children have grown up on a busy farm , I am very aware of the risks and the work pressures that all too easily lead to children being exposed to danger . |
| 28 | You know so you have to reach out on a daily basis for these gifts . |
| 29 | In reality it becomes almost impossible to find this amount in the budget , and projects have to limp along on an underfunded basis or with the overseas donor financing an increasing proportion of the total costs . |
| 30 | The Rome Central Institute of Restoration and the Calabria Soprintendenza Archeologica have teamed up on a year-long project to remove the corrosive salts from the interiors of the statues . |