Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Democratic leadership in Congress has pushed him hard on the issue . |
| 2 | But my colleague has brought it forward on a matter of safety . |
| 3 | ‘ It has put me back on the golf course , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 5 | Armed with this information , they would n't have picked him out on an identity parade . |
| 6 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 7 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 8 | you 'll have to put them up on the ceiling |
| 9 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 10 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 11 | One biggish living room and a little back kitchen with no water and no sanitation and if you wanted to dispose of your water you 'd have to take it out on the roadside and chuck it down the main drain . |
| 12 | He was back in the seat , having kissed her glancingly on the mouth as he swung down into it . |
| 13 | Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . " |
| 14 | The other woman had caught her completely on the raw with her mention of the man she had seen Adam with , though to be honest she could n't really have said why . |
| 15 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 16 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 17 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 18 | no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill |
| 19 | ‘ When I 've seen you safely on the train , I should still have time enough to get to the auction . ’ |
| 20 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 21 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 22 | That she had n't heard of the plan was scarcely surprising , since Belinda had made it up on the spur of the moment . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 24 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 25 | He had met the Shah year before and the Shah had lectured him imperiously on the need for law and order in affairs of state . |
| 26 | And as I had told you before on the previous er chat we had , how my father took over er when when I was two years old we moved up . |
| 27 | It is , they 've give it out on the trains as you 're coming in |
| 28 | Still she could hear her own cries , as she had begged to be released — but nay , he had flung her down on the stone floor and leaned over her . |
| 29 | When she discovered that he had called her repeatedly on a mobile phone she flew into a rage . |
| 30 | The Harvard Planning Office had brought him in on a dispute between the track coach and the builders of a new gymnasium , concerning the dimensions of the new indoor track . |