Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this was pointed out , the family 's reaction was at first disbelief and then concern , because the sale would have fallen through on this point , especially as , when they acquired the property , they had used a solicitor and a surveyor . |
| 2 | He could have come back on that one , if he 'd really tried , but sometimes it was much easier to lie on the floor and watch the lights on the ceiling and listen to the count going on . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , I must have missed out on that . |
| 4 | If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe . |
| 5 | four weeks , would have shown up on that . |
| 6 | four weeks , would have shown up on that . |
| 7 | A really thorough murderer would have boned up on both subjects more intently . |
| 8 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 9 | Their habits , modes of thought , patterns of speech , style of drafting will have rubbed off on one another to the point where but a few free or tough or independent spirits resist mutation into a sludgy administrative amalgam . |
| 10 | But if they changed their portfolio balance , they would have lost out on this upturn , ’ said . |
| 11 | Her mother , on the other hand , had been told her address the night before — but it seemed highly unlikely that Mrs Agathangelou would have splashed out on such an opulent bouquet to welcome her daughter to London . |