Example sentences of "have [to-vb] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured .
2 If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time .
3 But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’
4 Has a lot to prove this term , after a poor season Has to move on from the promising youngster stage .
5 Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group .
6 He was informed that he would have to sign on for an extra year to join the guards , but he told his mother , ‘ I 'll stay as long as I choose .
7 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 .
8 So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ?
9 I had to go on to the usual horror .
10 Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half .
11 After an appallingly rough five-day voyage the self-styled monarch was unable to land , as intended , at Montrose in Angus , because of the presence of a suspicious-looking vessel , and had to sail on for a further 60 miserable miles [ 96 km ] to Peterhead , beyond Aberdeen .
12 Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there .
13 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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