Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , the paintings are invisible ; and there is always the chance that one has remained undetected on the fore-edge of some travel book , bible , prayer book or collection of verse . |
| 2 | He 'd sounded nervous on the phone last night . |
| 3 | Carpenter 's speed and control was even causing problems for Harris , himself no slouch , and Farnham 's hearts must have been in their mouths when the Cranleigh number 10 , having broken clear on the right , hit the deck after a late challenge by Cann who had raced out of his area . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid you 'll have to go easy on the Sangria while taking the tablets , and on the swimming too . ’ |
| 5 | You 'll have to go easy on the whisky in case you get |
| 6 | Concrete block piers are built by laying two blocks flat and two on edge on alternate courses : they do n't have to look pretty on the back , as long as they 're soundly constructed . |
| 7 | But many people felt that the camera should not have stayed fixed on the couple as they reached climax . |
| 8 | They may have proved naive on the field of play but , says JOHN ROBBIE , the two emphatic defeats did the Springboks less harm than the myopic selection of the old guard to manage the coming tour to Europe . |
| 9 | Tod says Sam should not have gone soft on a blab who squealed . |
| 10 | CIDER sales are fizzing — but Merrydown seems to have got lost on the way to the party . |
| 11 | Streets which had looked short on the map seemed endless when one had to walk them with a suitcase . |
| 12 | Spurs clearly felt the loss of their big centre-back Guy Butters , who had reported sick on the coach journey to Essex . |
| 13 | PC Stephen Huntrod climbed four storeys to rescue a 19-year-old man who had got stuck on the roof of the unsafe Old Vic theatre in Front Street , Stanley , in November . |
| 14 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 15 | In fact , the land had become very open and flat at that point , enabling one to see a considerable distance in all directions , and the spire of Salisbury Cathedral had become visible on the skyline up ahead . |
| 16 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 17 | John and Simon , although they had sounded cheerful on the telephone , were fractious , upset , and ultimately a crashing bore . |
| 18 | Many years ago I had to call weekly on a woman client who was separated from her husband and caring ( very efficiently ) for a young family . |
| 19 | In Rome yesterday it was evident that the Gazza deal was doomed because Juventus who were to provide half the four million that was to have been Lazio 's down payment had gone cold on the deal . |
| 20 | In fact the Americans have gone cool on the idea . |
| 21 | Though the Khmers Rouges have made it clear that they would consider taking part in a coalition government , they have remained silent on the question of giving up their weapons . |
| 22 | C : It 's gone brown on the top . |