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

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1 ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings !
2 There was stuff piled up in it till it 'd spilled over on to the pathway .
3 She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening .
4 On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on .
5 ‘ I keep thinking she might have gone out on to the balcony instead . ’
6 If I had so wished , I could have climbed out on to the wing and with the use of a telephoto got an unusual shot of the unique S-shaped ground with its mock-Wembley turrets in terracotta .
7 Accepting this , some members of the British Government seem to have fallen back on to the second misconception .
8 Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter .
9 Then my granny had to come out on to the verandah and interfere .
10 One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top .
11 Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace .
12 Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own .
13 In the less than half light Owen saw that Georgiades had come out on to the gallery .
14 Denholm , who had moved out on to the starboard wing , returned , lowering his binoculars .
15 Jasper had got down on to the floor and was grubbing about under the carpet .
16 And , after the two of them had slipped down on to the expensive and discreet rug , the rest of his body also demonstrated its unimpaired mobility .
17 The Muslim 's bird had gone back on to the offensive , swooping down with its spurs and ripping a great gash along its enemy 's cheek .
18 Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing .
19 When Rohmer and Duvall had stepped down on to the top of the basement landing , Cardiff followed them , carefully letting the door close behind him .
20 One Fascist who had climbed out on to the ledge prudently withdrew , and the windows were closed .
21 But the men gave way , because they had no choice , and the next minute the car had bounced out on to the road , turning left , away from the village and up towards the dale head .
22 The official explanation was that a finish flag had blown down on to the mechanism and the timing had run on .
23 Free time now means catching up with the things they have missed out on in the past : novels by Michael Moorcock and Toni Morrison , the new Australian cinema , opera cassettes borrowed from the public library , gardening and fishing , weekend trips to the landscapes of their respective childhoods .
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