Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Gran has joined in on the act .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme .
12 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 .
13 That privilege , and the airs and presumption that went with it , are still resented ; and some of the resentment has rubbed off on the poet .
14 Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her .
15 School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot .
16 His Dad had pulled up on the other side of the road .
17 If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed .
18 You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ .
19 This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest .
20 Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men .
21 And in any case , if he recovered he 'd spend his life looking for Vecchi , if that party had muscled in on the black .
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