Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 2 | In the quarries at Chapel Stile , Dave Birkett has added Keep On Keeping On , E7 7± : in effect a direct on his own Scared Rabbit . |
| 3 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 4 | Research scientist Dr Kumar had intended to quit Middlesbrough Council if reelected after his success in last November 's by-election but now he has decided to stay on . |
| 5 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 6 | They are , as they say in the films , all he has had to go on . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ This woman was travelling with her boyfriend who has had to go on without her to return all their gear . |
| 8 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 9 | Science has got to go on looking for knowledge . |
| 10 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 11 | The FIVE NATIONS COMMITTEE has agreed to carry on with the successful recent experiment of having the referees ‘ wired ’ to the commentators ' headphones during games . |
| 12 | Webb , who has agreed to play on for both Bath and England until a Registrar 's appointment becomes available , kicked five penalties and converted a superb Jeremy Guscott try to sink Quins . |
| 13 | Since the invisibility of women is not confined to particular disciplines , feminism has tended to take on an interdisciplinary approach . |
| 14 | It is not clear from the article to what extent it was Dutch society that he was basing his analysis on , but given that he appears to be making a general point about changes within Western Europe , it is important to point out that most of the literature on youth , adolescence and relations between the generations in Britain has tended to concentrate on , to use Elias ' term again , the changing balance of power between the generations within the working class . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind the reference by Shelley J.A. , in Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , 180 , to the concept of counsel for the Crown as ‘ minister of justice whose prime concern is its fair and impartial administration , ’ their Lordships , while not feeling bound to accept in relation to Jamaica the comprehensive principles , almost amounting to criminal discovery , which the defendant has attempted to rely on , recognise that the ‘ Purvis–Barrett ’ principles do not cover every situation in which fairness may demand that the prosecution make available material to the defence . |
| 16 | I guess he has gone to switch on . |
| 17 | But there may be legitimate reasons for incorporating a company which is intended to remain dormant indefinitely or for retaining on the register a company which for the time being has ceased to carry on business but which the members may wish to use at some time in the future for the same or some different business . |
| 18 | This speech has now completely turned the play around and has begun to lead on to the tragedy at the end of it , Brutus , the nobleman 's , death . |
| 19 | In Cool Cats : 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll Style , published in the early '80s , journalist Cynthia Rose wrote : ‘ Rock music has failed to take on woman except as an idol or a target . ’ |
| 20 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |
| 21 | Any character who has managed to hang on at least 8 feet up the stairwell can keep his head above the filthy muck and breathe . |
| 22 | After some of the descriptions she 'd seen tagged on to her own name in newspaper reviews , she could hardly disagree . |
| 23 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 24 | I 'd hoped to come on to Prague after that . |
| 25 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 26 | ‘ Considering you told me that you 'd taken supplies on in Oban and that you managed perfectly well all of yesterday , and that your boat is.probably stiff with tins and even bottles- ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd managed to hang on to it . |
| 28 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 29 | She was a wiry little person one would have expected to live on and on . |
| 30 | One might well ask why the violinist Felice Giardini should have wished to take on this administrative burden , celebrated as he was as one of the principal virtuosos in London 's concert life . |