Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 2 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 3 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 8 | Firemen helped ambulance staff lower a workman who had fallen on a roof at a housing site at Ash Green , Coulby Newham , Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Without the operation , Laura , who had lived on a diet of liquid protein , would not have survived much longer . |
| 12 | His early arrival was clearly something of an inconvenience to his lordship and his colleagues who had reckoned on a day or two more of privacy for their preparations . |
| 13 | But he acquired many followers and The Cloud of Unknowing describes in detail the strained antics of people who had embarked on an unhelpful quest for sensational experiences and weird and wonderful states of mind . |
| 14 | He turned and yelled at Hugh de Riveire and his men , who had launched on a private war at his back . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As was seen at the recent September Gala the old gentleman is feeling his age and his appearance on the Sunday was only possible after herculean efforts on the part of the staff who had to work on a hot locomotive , in the most trying conditions , to ensure an appearance at the Gala Weekend . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |
| 18 | THE first students at Aquinas College , Stockport , who have studied on a BTEC course , had an assignment to set up and run a branch of the Yorkshire Bank in college . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Today I have with me two ladies who have embarked on a career in science . |
| 21 | We believe that a continuation of this activity could in the long term be detrimental to the welfare of their less privileged neighbours , who have to depend on a weekly wage for their survival ’ . |
| 22 | Of course , if disturbances occur to aggregate demand , buyers or sellers who have agreed on a price P and a quantity to be traded y n will find themselves buying or selling more or less than they now think is optimal , but that is not the point . |