Example sentences of "had [verb] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 3 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 4 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 5 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 6 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 7 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 8 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 9 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 10 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 11 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 12 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 13 | The court was told she had ignored a Give Way sign at a junction and had driven on to the main road at about 40 mph . |
| 14 | It was the end of a trail which had had its beginnings in those first rumblings of Henry Fairlie against the Establishment and Malcolm Muggeridge against the Monarchy ; a trail that had led on through the Angry Young Men and all the resentments sown by Suez , through the heyday of affluence , through all the mounting impatience with convention , tradition and authority that had been marked by the teenage revolution and the CND and the New Morality , through the darkening landscape of security scandals and What 's Wrong With Britain and the rising aggression and bitterness of the satirists , in ever more violent momentum . |
| 15 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 16 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 17 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 18 | She had gone on from the Noble Order of Lady Queen Bees ' meeting to a party given by one of the members , and was by now tired , cross and a little tipsy . |
| 19 | All of London had poured on to the great open waste , heads craned towards the stake on the brow of a small hill just next to a three-armed gibbet . |