Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 2 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 3 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 4 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 5 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 6 | Railway enthusiasts , understandably , have let off steam about the matter and say the town has lost out on a major tourist opportunity . |
| 7 | PAUL Gascoigne has splashed out on a secret honeymoon for his sister . |
| 8 | The club 's Jarrow born manager Jimmy Mullen ( Backtrack , December 10 ) was obliged to send a deputy to last Friday 's manager of the year awards the entire team has shoved off on a sponsored fortnight in Bermuda . |
| 9 | The W.C. , however , was outside , and I used to indulge in a small secret smile when , having crept out on a freezing night to the little ‘ necessary house ’ , I must needs sit facing an outdated calendar showing a picture of ‘ A Sunny Haven ’ . |
| 10 | The more serious test came that evening when , having lunched out on a huge cote de boeuf , we were unexpectedly presented with the full fruits of our labours at dinner . |
| 11 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 12 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |
| 13 | She was neither rich enough nor impressionable enough to have walked out on a well-paid job simply in order to indulge a vapourish mood . |
| 14 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |
| 15 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 16 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 17 | Sanchia Holmes , manageress of the Framework clothes shop , said Saturday was usually their busiest day and they had missed out on a good deal of custom . |
| 18 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , claimed the council had missed out on a major tourist attraction . |
| 19 | But Mrs. Pridmore had seized gratefully on a familiar name . |
| 20 | The reference to the tent meant either that ‘ John Parsons ’ had written it , and was hoping to see me around , or that they had teamed up on a declared truce . |
| 21 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 22 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 23 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Preservation Society , said the town had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 24 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 25 | But he had ridden up on a valiant steed with all the trappings of chivalrous knighthood . |
| 26 | There 's little hope of much change from a fiver once you 've splashed out on a basic box of 12 . |
| 27 | And at the moment , all five of them have joined together on a single campaign , which is about trade . |
| 28 | And they stormed it , it 's built up on a high , you 'll see the photo of it when , where it and they protected , there 's a film about it , where the erm |
| 29 | High prices and a determination to stick to plain , some say ‘ dull ’ pieces , meant that they have missed out on a growing market for decorative items in the lower price range , while the move to new premises essentially changed their image from a shop to a ‘ view by appointment ’ private gallery . |
| 30 | ‘ As a farmer whose children have grown up on a busy farm , I am very aware of the risks and the work pressures that all too easily lead to children being exposed to danger . |