Example sentences of "have [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawback of this system is that the clinical teacher works only briefly with each student and has little on which to assess progress . |
| 2 | All right the abbey is in ruins and I doubt whether that impotent old priest up at the Old Rectory has much on offer . |
| 3 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 4 | but Terry has enough on his plate without having to separate them into maths and this that and the other and photocopy bits and pieces ! |
| 5 | Apart from which , she has enough on her plate at the moment . |
| 6 | To satisfy Moore 's requirements an activity has somehow on the one hand really to somehow matter , and on the other hand not to do so on account of anything ordinarily thought of as of practical use . |
| 7 | Ciba-Geigy has no on site crèches or company-wide policies on childcare or flexible working , but does have individual job sharing and term time working arrangements with working mothers . |
| 8 | Cos I went in this morning I 'd better on the piss last night . |
| 9 | They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number |
| 10 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 11 | But they do not always have right on their side . |
| 12 | As you 'll have both on your hard disk , it makes sense to use the latest versions . |
| 13 | I really enjoy her company and miss the fun we used to have together on Neighbours . |
| 14 | As in all such complicated and protracted events , both had right on their side at times which only served to perpetuate feelings of grievance . |
| 15 | Those who practise witchcraft are , by definition , in the wrong : if they had right on their side they would hardly need to descend to such mean tricks as witchcraft . |
| 16 | He did not know I had read his notes and I did not confess I had , but he elaborated on what I had read , and I was convinced he had right on his side — if not prudence . |
| 17 | Although Jonadab Oaks had never encouraged his girls to ride , as he did his sons , they had all on several occasions had a go at riding the horses owned by their father . |
| 18 | After anxiety expressed by foreign bankers over the uncertain legal status of the foreign debt of the four existing concerns under the new structure , and after it was confirmed on July 20 that a fifth state holding company , Efim , had unilaterally declared a moratorium on its debts , of which over a quarter was owed to foreign banks , for up to two years , the government announced on July 23 that the companies , IRI , ENI , ENEL and INA , which had all on July 13 become joint stock companies , would remain under Treasury control . |
| 19 | Germany was prostrate ; France had ceased to be Britain 's inveterate enemy ; and the Soviet Union had enough on its hands rebuilding Mother Russia . |
| 20 | Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s . |
| 21 | The team had enough on its mind as it was . |
| 22 | She had enough on her hands trying to bring up the boys , and the simplest expedient would be to get the little girl down to Frome , where her deceased husband 's sister and brother-in-law , William and Sarah Chinnock , could provide her with a decent upbringing . |
| 23 | He had enough on his mind . |
| 24 | She had enough on her plate . |
| 25 | For starters , she had enough on her plate with Jonathan and her disillusionment with him , and , for a second thing , she was as uninterested in him as he was in her . |
| 26 | It was not only because he wanted no extra work that the husband had tried to persuade his wife she had enough on her plate without insisting on a birthday party for their four-year-old . |
| 27 | The essential point was that , in those major companies with a active internal audit function , it already had enough on its plate . |
| 28 | For her part Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , told the UK House of Commons on April 19 after publication of the Kohl-Mitterrand letter that the EC had enough on its plate without getting involved in such " esoteric things " . |
| 29 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 30 | Travis had enough on his plate just now without being asked to go against his promise to Rosemary to reveal nothing about her . |