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

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1 The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds .
2 An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time .
3 There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer .
4 Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net .
5 By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs .
6 Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee .
7 Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ?
8 There is no institutional culture here , which there is at the BBC , and that 's what we have to trade on in the next 10 years .
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