Example sentences of "have [vb pp] on their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elegance of the woman 's appearance , her hoop ear-rings , is carefully realized , but the couple stare out of the canvas blankly , nothing has registered on their faces , neither pain nor passion , and Modigliani remains detached , if faintly amused , by their front of respectability . |
| 2 | The Energy Intensive Users Group ( EIUG ) has claimed on their behalf that on such volumes , UK prices were raised prior to privatisation above the levels enjoyed by overseas competitors . |
| 3 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |
| 4 | They are claiming more than £100,000 compensaion for what they allege was the ‘ catastrophic ’ effect the contamination has had on their lives . |
| 5 | The questions will explore : claimants ' work history and perceptions of their job prospects ; their experience of claiming benefits and the effect it has had on their search for paid employment : their awareness of dependency on the state on their own part and among other claimers : and their general ideas about the role of claimant . |
| 6 | Brian Larkman has speculated on their significance : |
| 7 | Much discussion of the influence of TNCs has focused on their size , both in terms of the scale and scope of their operations and the fact that the turnover of the largest , notably the giant oil corporations , exceeds the gross national product of all but the richest states . |
| 8 | They 'd stopped on their way across the marble floor , both of them blue-white in the lights and the fog . |
| 9 | It might even be something that Creed already understood , that he 'd divined on their first meeting in the Mortlake office . |
| 10 | I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ . |
| 11 | Wagons rolled on again through the valley — women laughed 'cause they 'd kept on their hair |
| 12 | In making these pictorial representations people must have relied on their memories of past events , and so all three modes of time were involved . |
| 13 | Walk across the terrace from the Birthplace Museum to the Conservatory , which you will find packed with many of the tropical plants which Cook and his botanist , Sir Joseph Banks would have seen on their voyages . |
| 14 | He would not have reckoned on their single liaison having such an outcome , and he would be blaming her for failing to have taken precautions . |
| 15 | Not only childhood vanishes : men and women , having handed on their genes , are superfluous . |
| 16 | The band probably exaggerate the effect a Cossack-flavoured version of ‘ Those Were The Days ’ would have had on their career . |
| 17 | Indeed , as a component , it was found that the units themselves would have sold on their own merit . |
| 18 | You could have walked on their heads on Saturday . |
| 19 | Yet this ‘ floating value ’ might never have settled on their land , and obviously the aggregate of the values claimed by the individual owners is likely to be greatly in excess of a total valuation of all pieces of land . |
| 20 | They may have rounded on their heroes on Saturday , but last night they got behind Celtic from start to finish . |
| 21 | Those expatriate Conservative voters in Singapore must have choked on their gin slings last week when they opened their copy of the Straits Times . |
| 22 | In other words , the same people who would have emigrated on their own will be assisted by government programmes . |
| 23 | From all that he heard , it was clear that Gaddafi 's position had been secured for him in a way that his palace guard and secret police could never have managed on their own . |
| 24 | Australia has been isolated from the rest of the world for a long time and its flora and fauna are unique having evolved on their own without competition from species elsewhere . |
| 25 | Arnold Palmer , Gary Player , George Archer and Jack Nicklaus are the only golfers ever to have won on their first appearance in a US Senior Tour event . |
| 26 | Interior Ministry troops , who on June 6 had sealed border crossings between Uzbekistan and southern Kirghizia , had fought to prevent up to 15,000 Uzbeks armed with makeshift weapons from crossing into Osh oblast to join the fighting on June 7 , while gangs of Kirghiz , similarly armed , were reported to have massed on their side of the border . |
| 27 | For one thing , very few punks could claim to have passed through the Royal College of Music on a piano scholarship , nor really to have worked on their musical discipline by backing bouzouki players in Greek restaurants , or a plethora of cabaret acts in The Playboy Club , Portsmouth . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , the lack of cohesive leadership took its toll , and by late 1939 thirty of the original 166 students had reneged on their undertaking to emigrate to Palestine . |
| 29 | Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ Think yourselves lucky , ’ Kadan observed as he dumped the bedding and equipment that he had scavenged on their behalf on the grass and began to sort it into piles . |