Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | His a terrible , so we did n't go near him right through on the playing field , and then Katherine , I found to get , I sat , found a way to get them near Matthew and then Katherine said , I tickled him on the back , and I 'd kept on doing that . . |
| 2 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 3 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish I 'd stayed on at college . |
| 5 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 6 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 9 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 10 | ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on . |
| 11 | But obviously I 'd got on to something a bit more skilled and I still had this know all attitude . |
| 12 | There was the wall I 'd sat on ! |
| 13 | I did n't want to risk Mrs Long , and Mrs Travers knew where I had moved on to , so giving her name could cause problems as well . |
| 14 | I had moved on to selling friends ' addresses to the Chief-Corporal , and in return for the names and numbers of two Sloane girlfriends I had got the bed nearest the stove . |
| 15 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 16 | I felt that I had moved on ; my attitudes , my experiences had moved on . |
| 17 | I was totally inexperienced , and on the straight I eased and Phil came past like the Inter-City train I had travelled on . |
| 18 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 19 | Joanne had handled the set-up of the press conference in Glasgow and I had gone on to Newcastle Airport to meet the plane there . |
| 20 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 21 | After the first morning when it appeared in the garden I had gone on giving it food . |
| 22 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 23 | At the end of it , I was tired but glad , making camp after twenty-three miles , the farthest I had managed on or off tarmac . |
| 24 | I had held on to Lili , and Syl had brought me home insisting that our mothers should stay and go on to dinner with Lili and Robert and the gallery owner as planned . |
| 25 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 26 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 27 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 28 | My heart froze for a second , as if I had put on an elaborate disguise and suddenly been addressed by name — I did n't feel safe any more . |
| 29 | I stood in the church , and looked at the summer flowers I had put on their grave . |
| 30 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |