Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 2 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 3 | In and around the long-abandoned quarries are millstones which the workers had barely started on ; others with their circular shapes and central holes ; a few even have the radial grooves or ‘ harps ’ chiselled into them , ready for use in the flour mills ; but all left lying when the trade collapsed under competition in the eighteenth century from imported French Burr stones , which were thought to be of better quality for the purpose . |
| 4 | The police have also taken on the football hooligans , the hippies , and the criminal gangs . |
| 5 | Now openly tipped as a candidate to succeed Norman Lamont as the next Chancellor in a summer reshuffle , the bookies have also cottoned on to him as a possible future leader of the party and cut his odds from 33-1 to 16-1 . |