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

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1 PETER Rice , the Irish structural engineer who has collaborated on some of the most notable buildings of modern times , has been chosen as the RIBA 's nomination for the 1992 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture .
2 Our Harry has trodden on some Very Important Toes , she thought .
3 This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs .
4 The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there .
5 To wake up a Woosnam who has struggled on some dull courses and slow greens recently , it took a demanding course and fast greens , even if neither were as demanding nor fast as perhaps in previous years .
6 For this chapter the author has drawn on some of the substance contained in a paper published in Children and Society ( Wolfendale 1987 ) .
7 They will have to agree on some type of standard .
8 If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year .
9 But I shall still have to draw on some capital Brenda , nevertheless .
10 I had it the other day over s some occasion when I had to go on some t television and the reporter said what 's the Home Secretary gon na do about it .
11 Since the evergreen boughs were so dark and gloomy , Breeze had tied on some red beads as berries , and gummed the leaves before sprinkling them lightly with powdered ‘ frost ’ .
12 I had detected on some of the fields close to this one and had discovered the site of two Georgian cottages in one field , together with coinage of the period , crotal bells and foot patents , plus some other items too numerous to mention .
13 He had to put on some plaster so there were only three
14 Dada had disappeared on some sort of little prowl of his own .
15 He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron .
16 He had touched on some of the reasons why the United Kingdom had been outsmarted and disadvantaged when he had spoken before the Prime Minister at the meeting of the Economic Planning Council .
17 He had to decide on some action .
18 Even before that I had put on some weight which did n't all drain away during my illness .
19 Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror .
20 We always had trouble like that It was horrible You 'd go into the changing rooms after someone had tried on some rubber tights and there 'd be cum all over them .
21 On 4 August , Allitt had prepared a blackcurrant drink for Jonathan and he had remarked on some chalky bits at the bottom of the glass , said Mr Goldring .
22 As Dan stated , ‘ The target was under a patch of woods that looked like all the other woods around , so we had to drop on some co-ordinates by a railway track .
23 I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight .
24 Secondly , is it possible to fit extended shackles to the rear of the front springs as I have seen on some military LWB ?
25 Most Latin American countries have embarked on some sort of land reform programme , though these have varied considerably across the region in scope and depth .
26 So far , I have concentrated on some of the standard aspects of prison life and routine — in some ways no more than a mirror image of other large institutions .
27 I have touched on some of these developments in this chapter , but can not hope to describe the whole picture in detail .
28 My hypothesis is that the conditions of work are such that one mode of relating is that of schizoid withdrawal which means that individuals have to take on some of the characteristics just described .
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