Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 3 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 4 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 5 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 6 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 7 | ‘ Eastern Suburbs had planned a big welcome for Martin and the match with Balmain had sold out on the strength of it being his debut . |
| 8 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 9 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 10 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 11 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |
| 12 | It will only look at the premium status up to the fifteenth of the month , it wo n't take into consideration when so recall 's gone through on the sixteenth of the month . |
| 13 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 14 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 15 | He was looking at a beautiful textbook about racehorses that Arthur had laid out on the floor . |
| 16 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 17 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |
| 18 | The Kievs were shrivelled up like lumps of coke , burst open , and all the garlic , herby butter filling had run out on the tray and burned . |
| 19 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 20 | All seven Fulmars had landed back on the carrier by 2015 but two were again scrambled almost immediately on the approach of three more S.79s . |
| 21 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 22 | As traffic congestion has built up in town centres , so new development centres have sprung up on the urban fringe and in the open countryside , where car-based access is , at least initially , easier . |
| 23 | Simon Wigg has lined up on the starting grid in more world championships than most people have changed tyres . |
| 24 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 25 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 26 | The Baron had been the Prince 's tutor at Oxford and was living proof to Sharpe that most education was a waste of effort , for none of Rebecque 's modest good sense had rubbed off on the Prince . |
| 27 | Coleman had gone up on the roof the previous evening for one of his periodic checks of the antennae he had rigged for the listening post . |
| 28 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 29 | The constituent legislation of other tribunals contains provisions allowing access to the High Court , whereas some tribunals have to fall back on the appeals contained in s.13 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 . |
| 30 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |