Example sentences of "have [verb] on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raisins were first included in American cookies only six years ago , but the idea has caught on with a vengeance . |
| 2 | While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe . |
| 3 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |
| 4 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 5 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 7 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 8 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 9 | Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy . |
| 10 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 11 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 12 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 13 | Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 . |
| 14 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 15 | Sitting in the dreary Independence Hotel in Tehran late at night , McFarlane fuming in his room , the rest of the party had got on to a conversation about radars . |
| 16 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 17 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 18 | All because it had ventured on to a lake where models were banned . |
| 19 | It came away from the wall and he had to grab on to a crate to stop himself overbalancing . |
| 20 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 21 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 22 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 23 | I 've put on over a stone |
| 24 | That day he had held on in a photo from Forever Diamonds , on similar ground to that he will encounter tomorrow . |
| 25 | He added that two of the Mayo family which his team found were wearing ‘ bendy boots ’ and there was only one ice axe between them , even though they had strayed on to a climbing route . |
| 26 | ‘ Looking for you — Mick and Terry have gone on to a club . |
| 27 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 28 | I thought oh no , she 's gone on to a vegan diet . |