Example sentences of "have [verb] on [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The actual retraining of walking in physiotherapy may require that one has imposed on one a new sequence of movements , a sequence quite different from that of the false folk theory , and one that the patient might not be able to construct without the expert help of the physiotherapist .
2 I have already pointed out that law has imposed on itself a self-denying ordinance in its relation to the personal .
3 Opening heavy lids , she found that he was staring at her with burning eyes , yet she was aware that he 'd imposed on himself an icy control .
4 We had to work on it a great deal .
5 As he approached tentatively , wanting to seem friendly but not to alarm her , she had turned on him a long and curious glance from remarkable , slanted , violet-blue eyes .
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