Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she has moved on again — in late October she took up a new appointment in Rotherham . |
| 2 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |
| 3 | Since then she has gone on to create exhibitions , including Zabat — a stunning series of Blackwomen 's portraits which will be exhibited at Camerawork Gallery in London from March 15–April 19 , and has now edited Passion : Discourses on Blackwomen 's Creativity , recently published by Urban Fox Press . |
| 4 | I suppose what 's happened is this : he has gone on staring out of the window , thinking , and she has gone on staring at him , waiting , with such absorption that neither of them noticed the tape had run out . |
| 5 | ‘ It still amazes me how much she has come on and is improving all the time . |
| 6 | She has come on Lisa has n't she ? |
| 7 | She wears her usual dull black leggings , and for the cool April evening she has put on a black woolly top . |
| 8 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 9 | She has worked tirelessly and helped raise millions of pounds for the charities she has taken on . |
| 10 | Like the Prince , she requests and gathers together information and reading material on all of the subjects she has taken on . |
| 11 | She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game . |
| 12 | When not being a mother or supportive wife , she has taken on numerous appointments in areas that interest her . |
| 13 | Her idol is the 1920s artist Varvara Stepanova , whose clothes designs she has reconstructed for museums and whose portrait , along with that of the revolutionary poet Mayakovsky , she has stitched on to another of her own red dresses . |
| 14 | He has lived on , you see , through the time when Athens embarked on the Peloponnesian War , and Cleon and Alcibiades buggered up the world 's first and best democracy . |
| 15 | That effort marked him as a classic possible and his work on the gallops leaves no doubt in my mind that he has trained on and can dispose of Azhar on his way to better things . |
| 16 | I suppose what 's happened is this : he has gone on staring out of the window , thinking , and she has gone on staring at him , waiting , with such absorption that neither of them noticed the tape had run out . |
| 17 | He has gone on to be invested as a Commander . |
| 18 | He has stayed on as a special adviser and in April will start teaching at his alma mater , Chuo University . |
| 19 | His modest apology for tardiness in producing this volume is unnecessary in any terms , considering the magnitude of his task , and when in addition one realises that he has pressed on with the completion of the work during his convalescence from a serious illness , it is clear that his apology should be replaced by the public 's commendation . |
| 20 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's technically a very good goalkeeper and he has come on in leaps and bounds in recent weeks , ’ he said . |
| 22 | He has come on in leaps and bounds this season . |
| 23 | ‘ When the proposals failed , I gave up on the profession and have not set foot in the Institute since , but it is characteristic of Bill 's commitment that he has carried on regardless . ’ |
| 24 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 25 | 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) ) . |
| 26 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |
| 27 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 28 | Any smallholder would do well to join a local ATB group , particularly if he has taken on his own farm with relatively little experience . |
| 29 | By the halfway stage he has taken on the slightly desperate , bloodshot aspect of the tragic hero about to be engulfed by the forces he has unleashed : ‘ I shall resolutely ignore everything but the skeletal essentials of my theme , ’ he declares ( ‘ Off , off you lendings ! ’ ) . |
| 30 | As a result , he has taken on more staff in the region . |