Example sentences of "have [verb] on [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the term that has caught on most widely to describe such zealots is ‘ hacker ’ and what they do , constantly , is known as ‘ hacking ’ . |
| 2 | The game has moved on so dramatically that the introduction of only one serve and a longer court has even been mooted . |
| 3 | An unhappy marriage is more likely to be explained in terms of current stresses than in relation to what has gone on long before . |
| 4 | The joke has gone on long enough . |
| 5 | DOWN in Nashville , its capital , the 1990s boom in American country music has gone on long enough to prompt some heady forecasts . |
| 6 | This has gone on long enough . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This planning process has gone on long enough and Darlington deserves a development on this site . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But this game has gone on too long . |
| 9 | This chaos has gone on too long . ’ |
| 10 | The exploitation of land and animals has gone on far too long — after fifty years of experimentation , let's move on to better things . |
| 11 | This was part of the cultural revolution which has gone on ever since . |
| 12 | Competition in facilities at home and abroad would prevail , Spottiswoode believed , for a generation to come — we know that it has gone on ever since . |
| 13 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 14 | Fletcher added : ‘ If we can win the one-day series it will be very pleasing after what has gone on so far , but it 's not going to be easy . |
| 15 | We did n't intend to have a five-piece group so we played with Craig and , in the meantime , Andy returned and we 'd gotten on so well with him that we decided to continue as a five-piece … |
| 16 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 17 | They 'd been friends , companions , they 'd got on well together , but , now that she knew what real love was , she knew that she had never for one moment loved him . |
| 18 | No matter how poor the programming , if these dishes had been as glossy and futuristic as compact discs , say , then they might have caught on as rapidly as , well , CDs themselves . |
| 19 | Fair enough : - I agree that Wilko did a good job breaking in Cantona , and if he 'd gone to the scum then he 'd probably have moved on just as quickly . |
| 20 | It is curious , by the way , that the gridiron plan should have gone on so long . |
| 21 | This morning the school party , including the wet member , having gone on well ahead , I crossed the beck and sat in the warm sun outside the gorge , simply looking . |
| 22 | We must have worked on well over a hundred different substances and there was absolutely no doubt about it . |
| 23 | Unlike joint services in many other places , the crews seem to have got on well together . |
| 24 | Rose was unable to do much when she was discharged from hospital after four months , but she assumed she would recover all of a sudden , because her illness had come on so suddenly . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've caught on very quickly to some of the interesting things Brownies do , but do n't forget the first thing Brownies learn to do is to give . ’ |
| 26 | The twentieth century had moved on more rapidly than many intellectuals had realized . |
| 27 | As Acheson had remarked in 1952 , the world had moved on too far for Churchill and Eden to try to revive the sort of personal ties which had existed with President Roosevelt during the Second World War — this would be " a classical example of the wrong way to do things " . |
| 28 | I suppose one reason we 've got on so well , May , is that you do n't go around resenting things and feeling you 're wasted on ordinary mortals . |
| 29 | As we drank our coffee I outlined Toby 's and my suspicions about Martinez and Jefferson , and I asked Sally whether she had got on well enough with Ed Grainger , who was Martinez' right-hand man in America , to ask him questions about the Harley contract . |
| 30 | But how did Charlie feel kissing and making love to one of the pop world 's latest idol , especially , as some on-set mischief makers suggested the two had got on so well , their celluloid games carried on into real life . |