Example sentences of "who have [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 2 | His Formentera representative is Gina Wenham who has lived on the island for 20 years . |
| 3 | Andrew MacKinlay , the Labour MP who has campaigned on the matter , has highlighted the case of one widow , now aged 98 , who only recently steeled herself to admit to her family that her husband had been executed for cowardice . |
| 4 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 5 | RAPHAEL Callaghan , singer and slide guitarist who has played on the Merseyside blues scene for more than 25 years , has had his original approach to blues music recognised by winning a national award . |
| 6 | I know from my work with homeless families that such people invariably need help late at night , in the early hours of the morning or at weekends , when it is especially difficult to find a general practitioner who will respond quickly to a call to see someone who has arrived on the doorstep — in my case that means the doorstep of the YMCAs for which I worked . |
| 7 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 8 | As Richard Holloway , the Bishop of Edinburgh , has observed : ‘ It is a culture that believes in belief … anyone who has worked on the other side of the Atlantic will recognise the syndrome . |
| 9 | Best wishes to Vera Reeves , a member from this area , who has embarked on the Teachers Training Course and will , we are certain , help carry on the Medau tradition in Hertfordshire . |
| 10 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 11 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 12 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |
| 14 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 15 | I know a 51-year-old women who 'd embarked on a passionate affair with a 55-year-old , but was terrified of spending the night with him . |
| 16 | Relations with France had deteriorated in recent weeks [ see p. 37874 ] , and on Dec. 21 the government denounced as " paternalistic " the comments of Thierry de Beaucé , the French Secretary of State for International Cultural Relations , who had called on the Moroccan government to respect human rights , especially in the context of the trials of those arrested over the Dec. 14-15 demonstrations . |
| 17 | There were others ( such as Howard Teicher , who had gone on the trip to Tehran and had seen the spare parts in the back of the plane ) who were ‘ not in all the boxes within the boxes but some element of the box ’ . |
| 18 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 19 | The Brigadier beamed and the Brigade Major returned the salutes of the local dignitaries who had gathered on the pavement just outside the restaurant . |
| 20 | Employing a night watchman was the solution to his problem , and so without delay Jack was sent to see the wharf manager , who felt that the sprightly-looking man who had served on the Khyber Pass would suit admirably . |
| 21 | The councillors were drawn heavily from people who had served on the previous local authorities : and most of the public remained ignorant and apathetic towards local government ( Rhodes 1972:420 — 1 ) . |
| 22 | The chairman historically was a person who had served on the tribunal as an ordinary member for some time . |
| 23 | Firemen helped ambulance staff lower a workman who had fallen on a roof at a housing site at Ash Green , Coulby Newham , Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | He sold his tape to The Sun and was later exposed as the ‘ supersnoop ’ who had eavesdropped on the royals . |
| 25 | The person who had eavesdropped on the proposed intrigue performed Stratton 's job for him ; stole the jewel ; slid thereafter into the background ; and disposed at leisure of the superfluous pearls and the petty cash . |
| 26 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 27 | This was in part an act of Yorkist pietas , since those who had suffered on the king 's behalf are particularly remembered , but it was also a plea for political continuity . |
| 28 | This was in part an act of Yorkist pietas , since those who had suffered on the king 's behalf are particularly remembered , but it was also a plea for political continuity . |
| 29 | Some of those who had commented on the draft of the new programme , Gorbachev revealed , thought the term should have been entirely removed ; others , on the contrary , thought it should have been dealt with at greater length . |
| 30 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |