Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] on [det] " in BNC.

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1 If the PNC Declaration of Independence constituted a major landmark in this process , the time has come to embark on another major step , that of declaring the setting up of a state or government structure .
2 The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists .
3 I noted what my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury ( Sir T. Raison ) said and it is interesting that , in reply , the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) has tried to sit on both sides of the fence on the difficult question of acquisitions and disposals .
4 Erich Fromm , who has continued to work on both lines of development together , as psychoanalysis should , has equally unfortunately dropped the death instincts , and at times the sexual instincts , out of his work .
5 It has begun to dawn on some investors that Waste Management is set to finance its growth by acquisition through the issue of paper .
6 Though Alner has failed to finish on both occasions he has ridden Seven of Diamonds this season , the horse won at the two previous meetings on this afternoon 's course , when partnered by Malcolm Batters .
7 Nevertheless , as will be seen from both Precedent 1 and Precedent 2 , neither the buyer nor the seller has chosen to rely on this maxim .
8 The gridded diagrams show very clearly that an Edwardian cyclist , lacking the eighteen gears of a modern mountain-bike , would have had to dismount on several occasions along the Earsdon Mill ( West Linkhall section of the route ) .
9 The following day , Jan. 14 , however , State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler described as a " definite change of position " the strict neutrality the US administration had decided to adopt on this question .
10 Erm but then weighing things up I 've got to reflect on that one .
11 ‘ You mean we 've got to go on that ? ’ he said .
12 Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things .
13 ‘ Now I 've got work to do and you 've got to stay on that bed .
14 ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said .
15 I 've had to take on more staff at the workshop in Killearn . ’
16 There , Mortimer conducted a briefing for some fifty of his men , who had volunteered to go on that night 's operation .
17 I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit .
18 I had begun to look on that photograph as a mascot for my enterprise .
19 In fact , he said by now they had begun to get on each other 's nerves .
20 I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this .
21 Even if , in the end , we have to agree to differ on some matters , grievances should be discussed , not camouflaged .
22 Erm I do n't think I have been down to that I think I 've sh erm wired the whole damn out of my mind because er it 's a long time since I heard such garbage in this chamber , it 's fortunate for us Chairman that Mr is n't a member of the Environment Committee because if that 's the kind of contribution that he 's prepared to make on these occasions we would could well do without it .
23 originally she was going to do it , but there 's a new one come in and she 's decided to go on this management , managements and it 's the new one
24 Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls .
25 Relative to the other opportunities that I have had to speak on such occasions , however , this is a lower grade privilege because the Bill has been extremely boring .
26 just told her she 's to er , she 's got to stop on another hour at night , till five o'clock instead of four .
27 Police have refused to comment on any of these claims .
28 Various initiatives have emerged to capitalise on this system
29 No he said she 's gone to work on that bike .
30 But the couple , now both retired , have learned to lean on each other for support as they continue to grieve for their youngest child .
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