Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a wiry little person one would have expected to live on and on . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | if I 'd had said I wan na , I wan na claim this from client you would have said come on , that 's a bad marketing exercise . |
| 4 | It reads like Masefield on a very bad day ; and one uses the word ‘ reads ’ with caution , since few people in recent times , except Lewis enthusiasts anxious to have read their way through the entire canon , can ever have bothered to press on with Dymer . |
| 5 | The early retirers in the After Redundancy study were split evenly between those who wanted to retire and those who would have preferred to work on . |
| 6 | ( This compares , incidentally , with just over one-quarter of those who retired at the normal pension ages who would have preferred to keep on working . ) |
| 7 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said deeply , ‘ we would have had to carry on as we were . |
| 9 | This 'll have to do to go on with . |
| 10 | But if if if Pembroke Hall is part of the package and they would never have volunteered to take on |
| 11 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 12 | And would you have wanted to stay on ? |
| 13 | I do n't think Edward would have wanted to stay on , and I was leaving . |
| 14 | Swindon will have to learn to battle on … |
| 15 | I should have liked to go on as we were , but nothing goes on , even for a short time , without making the kind of decision which was , in this case , clearly impossible . |
| 16 | Alice would have liked to go on , but Bert said , " Look , I 've had enough for today . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I think an investigation into the bogus account will be very revealing , I do n't see how I could have managed to go on robbing the customers from inside Swansea Jail , you should have stopped when you were ahead , Spencer . ’ |