Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] on a " in BNC.

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1 UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary .
2 Also , when considering development , it must be stressed that we do not have to depend on an infinite regress .
3 ‘ Well , today we 'll just have to rely on a good old-fashioned lock , ’ he said , beginning to take off his clothes .
4 So you 'll just have to hang on a bit .
5 They 'll just have to hang on a minute , .
6 And they could just as easily have hopped on a train to any other part of the country . "
7 Not having worked on a Dalek story since the first one , Cusick was concerned that the creatures were apparently mobile outside their metal cities without any explanation as to how they were picking up power .
8 Well this frocks never arrived and she just had to put on an ordinary er white blouse you see and a skirt and the frocks arrived the next day and she put them back .
9 The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note .
10 The ten-week India campaign could hardly have started on a worse personal note when it was announced , just as England flew in on 29 December that his marriage was over .
11 If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ?
12 Although the buyer can not complain under section 15(2) ( c ) of defects which he could reasonably have discovered on an examination of the sample , he may nevertheless have an action under section 14(2) or ( 3 ) above .
13 ‘ They would probably have jumped on a train and gone to London .
14 Whilst projects were delighted when they got pump-priming money they also had to draw on a range of local resources .
15 Just as there are hundreds of lenders to choose from , when you take an endowment loan you also have to decide on an insurance company who can provide you with a policy .
16 Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances .
17 Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions .
18 Most countries now have to build on an economy in which the productive assets are very run down , and even more importantly , in which a political consensus remains elusive .
19 No , it 's just that erm he feels comfortable and does n't have to put on a show
20 The Open University 's ( address on page 148 ) pre-retirement course book lists some of the good as well as the bad feelings you can have about being alone : ‘ I feel I do n't have to put on an act ’ , ‘ I feel really me ’ , ‘ I feel relaxed ’ are some of the items on the list .
21 so he said you do n't have to move on a Friday cos Mike said well do we have to move Friday ?
22 And you wo n't have worked on a farm at all yet , will you ?
23 The President may indeed have settled on a programme of health benefits and how to finance them .
24 Susan , a part-time school cook , then had to put on a brave face for a holiday in Spain with her children Emma , 10 and Jonathon , 13 .
25 It was a rare study ; most precipitation analyses of late have concentrated on a sexier topic , acid rain ( which also appears to be on the rise over the Chesapeake ) .
26 Thorndyke 's puzzle box forced animals to use a trial and error strategy in which they eventually had to happen on an answer through associations .
27 While this is due in small measure to the axing of TOPS awards and the establishment of new courses leading to post-graduate diplomas which have attracted students who would otherwise have enrolled on a DMS course , the main reason has been the decline in the economy which has resulted in few companies being willing to sponsor students to undertake the course .
28 But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’
29 By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression .
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