Example sentences of "have [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 33 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 34 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
| 35 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 36 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 37 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
| 38 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 39 | And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team . |
| 40 | Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group . |
| 41 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 42 | The chief inspector disliked his arrogant manner , his jocularity at her expense , particularly when the only weapon she had was bluff and she was vulnerable for having pressed on with the case against Spittals ' opposition . |
| 43 | ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni . |
| 44 | But I 'm thinking , I 'm think I 've got this terrible feeling I 'd have to come on with the princess , if we 've just got married |
| 45 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 46 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 47 | Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here . |
| 48 | On average , a sixteen-year-old recruit to farming will have moved on by the age of twenty-three — ; usually to the building and construction or road haulage industries . |
| 49 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 50 | ‘ I have nearly been killed through having to walk on to the road to see whether it is clear , ’ he said . |
| 51 | He might have got on to the motorway . ’ |
| 52 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 53 | He may have shimmied on to the scene a little late , but watch out for his name on the smoochy compilations for Christmas 1993 . |
| 54 | ‘ Besides , the fans did n't have to run on to the pitch . |
| 55 | The fact that a sociologist was witnessing the interviews make it all the more certain they would be conducted with scrupulous care , but there was no way he would be given access to the extra-legal deals which may well have gone on outside the interview room or later during a prison visit for ‘ write-offs ’ . |
| 56 | Sponge-fishing may also have gone on from the ports , though there is no direct evidence of it . |
| 57 | " I can show you how , " he promised , " but we would have to hold on to the back of a chair . " |
| 58 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 59 | I shall allow questions to continue until 4.30 , after which we shall have to move on to the debate . |
| 60 | But there it was , The Cottage , its porch right over the pavement to the gutter , red reflectors for night traffic on its corners , pedestrians having to detour on to the road before regaining the pavement again . |