Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
| 2 | It is undoubtedly a good thing that royal reporting has moved on from the tradition of deferential reverence in which James Whitaker first learned his trade . |
| 3 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 4 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 5 | Only one figure had subsided on to the ground , his face to the wall , and all their gazes were on him , terrified and arrow-sharp with hatred . |
| 6 | The majority of the law lords seemed to regard the interests of the state as coterminous with the interests of the government of the day ; executive-minded comments to that effect have lingered on in the textbooks ever since , an unwanted legal legacy from this period of popular protest . |
| 7 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 8 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 9 | On 28 May 1986 , Amnesty 's 25th Anniversary , St Clement Danes Church in the Strand , London , rang 5,000 chimes , roughly one for every POC case Amnesty had worked on during the year . |
| 10 | The lid had collapsed on to the remains , the sides had fallen outwards , but the two end pieces remained upright . |
| 11 | Ari 's spirits rose slightly once the group had bundled on to the highwire . |
| 12 | The trouble is that so are a lot of other people , and classy people at that , which is why old Joe ‘ I'm-a-dealer-in-architectural-antiques ’ Soap has climbed on to the pricey bandwagon . |
| 13 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 14 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 15 | Has a lot to prove this term , after a poor season Has to move on from the promising youngster stage . |
| 16 | Verily , the game has moved on from the days when Bobby Locke could , for instance , win seven tournaments in his baptismal year on the US circuit , and four Open Championships on this side of the Atlantic , and yet virtually never feel the need to depart from his habitual draw . |
| 17 | He gives an enrapturing spot of rock ‘ n ’ roll , be-bop and soft shoe shuffle in the second act after the cast had larked on with the audience at interval-time and some brave hearts had a bit of a rave-up on stage . |
| 18 | One man had climbed on to the roof of his car . |
| 19 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 20 | Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ? |
| 21 | The young Lieutenant had ridden on to the blade , and Sharpe had felt nothing . |
| 22 | The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters . |
| 23 | And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis . |
| 24 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
| 25 | She turned down the heat quicKly but some of the fat had splashed on to the flames and the blue smoke increased in density . |
| 26 | As the recession 's gone on through the eighties and enters the nineties , we can see that the number of single households , households with just one person , is increasing rapidly . |
| 27 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
| 28 | The Labour Party has moved on to the social democratic ground , it may even choose to call itself a social democratic party — in any case , it should complete the process with a constitution to suit . |
| 29 | He 'd been found Iying face down too , and the only sign of what had happened was a slight discoloration on the back of his jacket , as though some of the red dye from the trimming had leached on to the body of the black fabric . |
| 30 | A new face had tagged on to the Pistols party . |