Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |
| 2 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 3 | I know a 51-year-old women who 'd embarked on a passionate affair with a 55-year-old , but was terrified of spending the night with him . |
| 4 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 5 | Marx and Engels , like all their contemporaries , including anthropologists and archaeologists and Morgan in particular , felt that information gained about contemporary peoples whose life depended on a simple technology was valid for understanding the social institutions of prehistoric populations who had relied on a similar technology . |
| 6 | He turned and yelled at Hugh de Riveire and his men , who had launched on a private war at his back . |
| 7 | The Vicar 's wife , who had parked on a yellow line while her gay husband went into the shop to get a treacle tart , got such a shock when Wayne stuck his big , hairy white face in through the window that she jumped out and ran away . |
| 8 | A wide-ranging network of advice , information and assistance may develop , linking the families left behind and those who have migrated on a seasonal , short-term or longer-term basis . |