Example sentences of "have [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
2 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
3 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
4 | Yes well , for the experimental aircraft programme British Aerospace specified what G E C had to do and er a a this time , if you like , Deutsch Aerospace has taken on the equivalent role that B A E had for the experimental aircraft programme and er Deutsch Aerospace are not without experience in flight controls they have . |
5 | Mark Jones , the exhibition 's curator , has taken on the dual task of tracing the history of forgery from archaic Babylon to contemporary California , while at the same time tracing the history of how forgery is understood . |
6 | All four are , for example , victimised in different ways by the taboo of illegitimacy and the play focuses on Rose , who has been kept from the knowledge that Jackie is her mother by grandmother Margaret who has taken on the maternal role . |
7 | Matthew Spender ( son of the poet Stephen ) has taken on the harder task of writing about Tuscany from within . |
8 | But the issue of Somerset House , which he has put on the political agenda , will not fade . |
9 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
10 | Well he had to switch on the interior light to be able to fill out the form . |
11 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |
12 | The weight his stepfather had put on the young man 's shoulders had made David seem much older than his twenty-eight years . |
13 | This should do much to ease the burden the arms race had put on the Soviet economy . |
14 | He wished that he could as easily delete the memory of what had followed after she had switched on the overhead light . |
15 | There 's a pier here which we 've put on the new map erm and this is south promenade . |
16 | They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants . |
17 | Multico have taken on the British marketing rights for the Delta range of machinery . |
18 | BRITAIN 's first solar-powered lavatories have switched on the National Trust to cutting its £2.5 million power bill by using more ‘ green energy ’ . |