Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 2 | TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond . |
| 3 | However , as we have seen , central government , who through the SEC has boldly pressed on with the introduction of the GCSE , has even in doing so been subject to its own and its advisers ' demands that Standards should be preserved . |
| 4 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 5 | These people have fears which the media has shamelesslessly played on over the years , but which are genuine . |
| 6 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |
| 7 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 8 | Prothero the demon-king has never bounded on to the stage more sulphurously than in Hugh Kenner 's The Pound Era : |
| 9 | So I think for this run I 'd better press on with the book . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd better go on to the farm and buy … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on with the job quickly . ’ |
| 12 | Joan I think I 'd better box on with the webbing here love , I have n't got enough |
| 13 | I 'll bo I 'd better box on with the webbing on the back . |
| 14 | They had been on stand-by since 10.00 a.m. and it was now after one o'clock , but they were as crisp and well-tailored as if they 'd just stepped on to the plane . |
| 15 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 16 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 17 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 18 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 19 | At the same time the press had been tipped off that the Health Minister was leaving the country on holiday from Heathrow and half a dozen photographers had literally chased on to the runway to photograph him . |
| 20 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 21 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 22 | Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them . |
| 23 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 24 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 25 | Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace . |
| 26 | While physicians advised sparing use of the ointment , the quacks prescribed it liberally to great effect and had usually passed on to the next town before the inevitable relapses and the not infrequent deaths — results of over-treatment — had occurred . |
| 27 | But Dr Dunstaple had now moved on to the treatment . |
| 28 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 29 | The horse had barely stepped on to the gravelly riverbed at the edge of the ford when it stumbled , almost falling to its knees . |
| 30 | We took off on time , but we had unknowingly booked on to the milk run . |