Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 2 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 3 | Castells has now moved on to new areas of research , one of these being new forms of communications technology and the threats and opportunities represented by such developments.3 Meanwhile , however , his emphasis on consumption set the tone for a very thriving area of urban sociology by later writers in this tradition . |
| 4 | Although LEAs have sometimes held on to powers at the centre which prevented decisions being made quickly and flexibly , they did provide an education service which allowed an effective response to diversity and need . |
| 5 | Here Madame rejected the dress Ellie had previously tried on , in favour of a pale blue two piece , with a scalloped and belted waist , a calf-length pleated skirt , a large but neat bow to one side of the neckline , and two very small bows on the elbows of the wrist-length sleeves . |
| 6 | This does not bode well for Rover 's bright new star , maybe , but what helps the car 's cause enormously is the quality of the back-up that Rover has obviously insisted on . |
| 7 | Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace . |
| 8 | Yorkshire have now taken on two Pakistani lads for coaching , all-rounder Adil Ditta and Ismail Dawood , a promising batsman and wicket-keeper . |
| 9 | But HDTV has not caught on . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's tough and game and the ground at Ayr should suit her better than this , ’ said Willie after Lochsong had just held on to take the Portland . |
| 11 | and , anyway she was poorly for days and this Rita had just come on , poorly for days |
| 12 | but Weir had undoubtedly taken on too much . |
| 13 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 14 | But it was an improvement on William 's taste in art and they served a good pint of bitter , and Preston might almost have settled back to enjoy it if he 'd been able to forget their reason for being there and if Emily had n't kept on at him about William and the Black Death . |
| 15 | Over the last seven months , Lawrence has quietly got on with a rebuilding job at Ayresome Park . |
| 16 | Maybe one of the reasons Microsoft Corp 's NT is n't pegged to go on Sparc is because it 's little endian and Sparc is big endian : we 've heard that it would mean a major rewrite , something Bill Gates had n't figured on . |
| 17 | But Dr Dunstaple had now moved on to the treatment . |
| 18 | However , while Danzig enjoyed these widespread trade contacts and reaped the benefit of the still massive river trade in Polish timber ( 16,949 log floats of 9 logs per float were rafted down the Warthe to Stettin or Berlin in 1871 alone ) Western Europe had already moved on to develop its rail networks . |
| 19 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 20 | But Caroline had not hired on as a saleswoman , and she 'd certainly not hired on to be sociable . |
| 21 | DEC , Hewlett-Packard , Hitachi , IBM and Groupe Bull have already signed on for the event . |
| 22 | The EC has also taken on the role of policing the exercise of these rights through the Commission and the European Court of Justice , taking its brief from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome 1957 concerning free movement of goods and services , restrictive trade agreements and abuses of dominant trading positions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 25 | ‘ The YMCA has now taken on a much more important role , ’ says the genial Mr Hewitt , who is very concerned about the homeless . |
| 26 | However , as we have seen , central government , who through the SEC has boldly pressed on with the introduction of the GCSE , has even in doing so been subject to its own and its advisers ' demands that Standards should be preserved . |