Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.

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1 I have heard nothing on the Dave Norris situation for some while , but we must consider that he has gone .
2 ‘ I have to like them on the phone , ’ she says .
3 Mr Greenwald has now been appointed chairman of Tatra and Mr Shelby and Mr Rutherford have joined him on the board .
4 I have always disagreed with those in the black community who , when they have applied for jobs and have not been successful , have blamed it on the colour of their skin .
5 You have dropped it on the floor . ’
6 ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street .
7 I should say that he was good for at least another five years of hard work and although there are various rumours about his suffering from some obscure disease which makes his hand extremely shaky , I have had it on the quiet from his medical adviser that he is sound as a bell .
8 And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options .
9 Plenty of singers , wisely or otherwise , have modelled themselves on the heroes and villains of great literature .
10 I , I have got it on the prescription I had to get it Doctor sent me to the hospital ,
11 People have told me on the phone that I sound cos I 've got a deep voice I
12 I do n't know , just have to play it on the piano I think before you oh Tim , what have you done dear ?
13 In arriving at these estimates I have based them on the following estimations and assumptions :
14 Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register .
15 If you have taped yourself on the piano at home , make sure it will amplify well ; public address systems magnify all the little noises and blemishes .
16 They blamed the crises that have affected it on the way in which EC members carried out their obligations , not on the ERM itself .
17 She smelt of the exhalations of other people 's cigarettes and spilt wine , and she was expansive , with the air of someone who has spent time in the company of her like-minded fellows , not distracted and irritable as people are when they have tired themselves on the trail of trivial knowledge .
18 The underlying improvement in operating performance and the restructuring implemented in 1992 have set us on the path to full recovery .
19 Ferryhill , who have found themselves on the fringe of the relegation zone , are without four players , all injured , so Wayne Peachey is set to play .
20 ‘ Now you have touched him on the raw .
21 For many people the biggest problem with using a computer is simply that you have to type something on the keyboard to achieve anything at all .
22 perpetual insults that every decent labour man has endured through standing up for his country in the hour of her crisis from men who have foisted themselves on the Labour movement by wirepulling tactics .
23 Get yourself on the course that Paul went on and you 're gon na be getting the kit soon anyway , as part of the network , it wo n't give you stand alone , but you have to have somebody on the network
24 He could , he supposed , have thrown himself on the mercy of his father and stepmother , but the very idea was abhorrent to him .
25 Overweight people , particularly the heavily overweight , rarely stop eating until they have finished everything on the plate .
26 A letter came for you — I have left it on the table .
27 In theory , if you buy over five per cent of a company , you have to declare it on the Stock Exchange .
28 Just so might the exhausted arrogance of a dying empire have expressed itself on the lips of a Roman senator waving away the news of a ‘ crackpot messiah ’ among the Jews , and the strange thoughts that occur to people in Jerusalem or Galilee .
29 Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier .
30 I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then .
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