Example sentences of "have [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 4(1) ( d ) of the Act of 1914 also contained various grounds of jurisdiction , including when the debtor , ‘ has carried on business in England , personally or by means of an agent or manager ’ within a year before the presentation of the petition . |
| 2 | Is there any reason why that should not apply equally to the words ‘ has carried on business ? ’ |
| 3 | If the debtor resided in one district and carried on business in another , the petition must be presented in the latter ( r 6.9(3) ) and if he has carried on business in more than one district , the petition must be presented in the court for the district which was his principal place of business ( r 6.9(4) ) . |
| 4 | Neither the debtor himself nor a creditor can present a petition unless the debtor is domiciled in England and Wales ; is personally present in England and Wales on the day on which the petition is presented ; or at any time in the previous three years has been ordinarily resident , has had a place of residence , or has carried on business in England and Wales ( s 265(1) ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The taxpayer here has carried on marketing activities outside Hong Kong resulting in agreements for the sale or sub-licensing of intellectual property rights also exercisable only outside the colony . |
| 6 | If it had n't worked out , I would simply have carried on road riding . ’ |
| 7 | Outgoing Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir was reported on June 27 to have said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv : " I would have carried on autonomy talks for 10 years and meanwhile we would have reached half a million souls in Judea and Samaria [ the West Bank ] … |
| 8 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 9 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 10 | Some had sons working at home , but on others the sons had taken on contract work to bring in additional ( much needed ) income . |
| 11 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 12 | Others had taken on machinery contracting ( ploughing or grass conservation ) . |
| 13 | She had been a mother 's help to a family in Hampshire , she had babysat through an agency in London , and had taken on cleaning jobs . |
| 14 | He had put on weight . |
| 15 | He had put on weight , but he was taking exercise . |
| 16 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 17 | As a result his breathing was better and he had put on weight but , as he told Seferis , " the spirit sleeps " in such places:he became bored and restless . |
| 18 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 19 | One of the girls made a crack that Rachaela had put on weight due to the food . |
| 20 | School makes me nervous ; when I walk down the corridor I feel that everyone is staring at me , and because a lot of people know about my anorexia they think it their job to comment constantly on what I am eating or not eating , and how much better I look now that I 've put on weight . |
| 21 | Outwardly , now , everything is fine : I 've put on weight , I 've done what my mum and the doctors wanted . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've put on weight , old boy . ’ |
| 23 | Does that mean you 've put on weight ? |
| 24 | I would like help from those who have taken on responsibility to inform groups of the changes and want to find out where they found materials which were user friendly . |
| 25 | We will not find out why unemployment and heroin use are connected , why large groups of young men and women have taken on heroin use for the first time , or how they get the street money , without talking to them . |
| 26 | All the fish have put on weight , the Pictus especially have grown about half-an-inch . |
| 27 | Badger road mortalities , however , are reduced now as badgers have put on weight for the winter and venture out from their setts less and less . |
| 28 | What , he 's put on weight ? |
| 29 | She 's put on weight round here |
| 30 | Anna 's put on weight in her face , has n't she ? |