Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] on [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 2 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 3 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd not got on at Didcot , though . |
| 5 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 6 | The usurper 's army had indeed proceeded on down Annandale , almost certainly to link up with another large Galloway force collected by Sir Walter Comyn and Henry Balliol , Edward 's brother , from their estates in that province , many thousands strong , the reason why Sir Archibald had not risked coming on to Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 8 | Sunflowers have already caught on in France and now a handful of farmers are trying their luck with the new crop here . |
| 9 | Many have thus latched on to Oakeshott 's use of tradition to identify him as a Burkean conservative . |
| 10 | Arsenal fans still talk about former Highbury heroes Michael Thomas and David Rocastle , the main men from the Championship-winning team who have now moved on to Liverpool and Leeds . |