Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jip tells of something he has seen written on a wall : ‘ If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand we 'd be so simple we could n't ’ ( 88 ) . |
| 2 | Ironside , who joined Boro for £40,000 in the close season , has agreed to return on a month 's loan . |
| 3 | The millionaire Boss has agreed to appear on a new TV programme called Takeover , which highlights an outlawed squatter group who have seized buildings in eight US cities for use by the homeless . |
| 4 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 5 | Improvements in certain allowances were made , described as divisive by the unions , but the company has refused to compromise on a reduction in the shorter working week . |
| 6 | One of the last jobs of Leicester serviceman Taffy he retires shortly has involved working on a machine of the type he first handled fifty years ago when he joined the B U. |
| 7 | Throughout the year the Committee has continued to meet on a fortnightly basis to consider not just those issues referred to above but many others . |
| 8 | The agency adds : ‘ Determined to reduce the influence of conservationist non-governmental organisations on CITES and its partners , Lapointe has delivered CITES on a silver platter to the poachers and smugglers . ’ |
| 9 | Red faces at Hoesch , a German steel and engineering group , because its supervisory board has failed to agree on a new chief executive , and will now have to look outside . |
| 10 | Already that morning she had drunk more than the weekly average for women she 'd noticed displayed on a chart in the Summertown Health Centre waiting-room . |
| 11 | It was the sort of notice that one might have expected to read on a bus going from New York to Philadelphia . |
| 12 | A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms . |
| 13 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 14 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |
| 15 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 16 | At the 1924 Paris Olympics Liddell decided to withdraw from his chosen distance , the 100m as it would have meant competing on a Sunday . |
| 17 | ‘ So I 've decided to stay on a bit . |
| 18 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
| 19 | The car , a green Morris Minor , had been toppled over the edge of a shallow depression in the wasteland , and had lurched to rest on a grassy plateau about ten feet from the ridge like a clumsy animal going to earth . |
| 20 | Evidently he had decided to finish on a note of grave and reproachful dignity . |
| 21 | ‘ Now we 've got to decide on a wedding date . |
| 22 | Well it means I 've got to go on a Thursday so if you run out of money on a Tuesday with run out . |
| 23 | I 've got to go on an errand this mornin' , but as soon as I get back , I 'll … well , I 'll do the rounds and I 'll come along an' tell you . |
| 24 | The Co-op butcher was , had got his own shop lower down You could get everything in that one street and now in this modern age , we 've got nothing , we 've got to get on a bus and get into Walsall and so this is where it , we get infuriated because you know , in this progress we 've lost out have n't we ? |
| 25 | You 've got to win on a |
| 26 | Hand-reared birds can be put back in the nest once they can feed themselves , but if they 've become imprinted on a human , they may not respond properly to the other birds and the parents may reject them . |
| 27 | The house that when he first saw it had seemed to float on a raft of golden mist , now lay in a wilderness , amidst ragged grass and straggling bushes and trees dead from the heat . |
| 28 | In the Commons Mr Neil Kinnock 's demand that she tell the truth about Mr Lawson goaded Mrs Thatcher into saying : ‘ If he had wanted to resign on a point of policy , I could have understood that … |
| 29 | ‘ If he had wanted to resign on a point of policy , I could have understood that . |
| 30 | She had hoped to end on a note of pure hatred . |