Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 2 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 3 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 4 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 5 | After the young animal has imprinted itself on a particular individual , its attachments are fairly irreversible . |
| 6 | Since then her work with the band has taken her on a Scottish tour which included the Edinburgh Folk Festival , and she also performs with the four other ladies who make up Belfast 's first close-harmony vocal group ‘ Cuigear Ban ’ . |
| 7 | Her fate has taken her on a different journey , a route where the monarchy is secondary to her true vocation . |
| 8 | Dr Halden is married to my daughter and has taken her on an extended tour of the Continent . ’ |
| 9 | The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path . |
| 10 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 12 | You said you 'd spent it on a new banjo . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 14 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 15 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 16 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 17 | They 'd never have allowed me on a scheduled flight , and this is one party I would n't miss . |
| 18 | I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty |
| 19 | This foolish lad was said to have gorged himself on an entire goose one Christmas Eve and , upon staggering home , was robbed and murdered . |
| 20 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 21 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 22 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 26 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 27 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 28 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 29 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 30 | You 've got me on the touhgest part of the course and I 'm quite out of breath . |