Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , do n't be rotten , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'll go mad if I 'ave to lie on that bed any more today . |
| 2 | I had to lie on this bed with an enormous arch over me and be passed very slowly underneath it . |
| 3 | I had to rely on such copies . |
| 4 | I remembered the black tents I had seen on this same spot on my first visit . |
| 5 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 6 | It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent . |
| 7 | I had detected on some of the fields close to this one and had discovered the site of two Georgian cottages in one field , together with coinage of the period , crotal bells and foot patents , plus some other items too numerous to mention . |
| 8 | Sometimes I had to manage on that for a week . |
| 9 | According to the records I had collected on other fishkeeper 's spawnings their water chemistry was 5.5 to 6.2 pH and 3 to 5.8 DH . |
| 10 | I t had been a lightning love I had felt on that bench , I was sure — too sudden , too amazing — but nevertheless love |
| 11 | I had it the other day over s some occasion when I had to go on some t television and the reporter said what 's the Home Secretary gon na do about it . |
| 12 | The memory was triggered by talk of a young woman I had met on one trip who showed me Dyrhólæy and the sea pinnacles of Reynisdrangar near Vik . |
| 13 | I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit . |
| 14 | English Grammar for Today was the third book I had co-authored on English grammar . |
| 15 | Even before that I had put on some weight which did n't all drain away during my illness . |
| 16 | Now , two of the questions out of the six will come from developmental and four of the questions of the six will be coming from the topics that I 've covered on most of s it 'll come from one one of the many topics that I 've c or several of the topics that I 've covered . |
| 17 | I 've I 've I 've phoned on numerous occasions . |
| 18 | I 've gobbed on this one already now . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've played on all the big grounds and in front of 52,000 at Old Trafford but nothing 's a patch on what you get at Ibrox . ’ |
| 20 | And , as I 've touched on that subject , as an engineer , I am glad to have seen so many ladies in the teams tonight ! |
| 21 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 22 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 23 | Indeed some research I 've done on this shows that only three players have managed 400 such dismissals , namely Richard Hadlee , Hapil Dev and Malcolm Marshall . |
| 24 | About the only decent argument I 've heard on this , I have to say that because it was my daughter who advanced it , about the only decent argument I have heard is the one about badger baiting where she said to me but badger baiting is not allowed on your land and that is the point precisely that Mr made , it is not allowed because that is the law of the land and that is where decisions about the permission or otherwise of fox hunting should be made . |
| 25 | ‘ Ten years , ’ he said , ‘ ten years I 've had on this milk run , see , and I seen more accidents than I 've had Sunday dinners . |
| 26 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 27 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 28 | As you get older and you get more experienced of it you know you y you begin to realize that , I mean this album , I 've done this album and I haven , I 've have n't just sung on this album and made sounds , which is what I did with What Do You Want , I 've sung on this album and said something . |
| 29 | For instance , the tuner is the best I 've used on any processor — it 's accurate and very easy to use — and the facility to externally channel-switch your amp is a sensible bonus . |
| 30 | Now apart from that , we had a phone call from Mrs who 's here at the moment and she 'll probably , and I 'll tell you what I 've got on that . |