Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Allan 's charge , a useful hurdler rated in the mid 120s , has crept in on a mark of 86 over fences after an unenterprisingly-ridden second at Catterick . |
| 2 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 3 | Most analysts have now cut their first quarter forecast , and the views now range from a loss of 64 cents a share to a profit of eight cents — and David Wu of S G Warburg has gone out on a limb with forecast $0.80 a share loss . |
| 4 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 5 | OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot . |
| 6 | Railway enthusiasts , understandably , have let off steam about the matter and say the town has lost out on a major tourist opportunity . |
| 7 | The group has splashed out on a string of new programmes to be shown when it takes over from Thames next month . |
| 8 | PAUL Gascoigne has splashed out on a secret honeymoon for his sister . |
| 9 | After a disappointing start to their league season , Oxford United 's manager , Brian Horton has splashed out on a one million pound signing from Liverpool Reserves , that 's midfielder , Jim Magilton . |
| 10 | The club 's Jarrow born manager Jimmy Mullen ( Backtrack , December 10 ) was obliged to send a deputy to last Friday 's manager of the year awards the entire team has shoved off on a sponsored fortnight in Bermuda . |
| 11 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 12 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 13 | he h is to , having to pick up on a per capita basis of fee earners , which is how Andrew has distributed these costs . |
| 14 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 15 | However , BIG BEAT , 9-2 with Hills and Ladbrokes , could well have crept in on a very lenient mark . |
| 16 | The W.C. , however , was outside , and I used to indulge in a small secret smile when , having crept out on a freezing night to the little ‘ necessary house ’ , I must needs sit facing an outdated calendar showing a picture of ‘ A Sunny Haven ’ . |
| 17 | The more serious test came that evening when , having lunched out on a huge cote de boeuf , we were unexpectedly presented with the full fruits of our labours at dinner . |
| 18 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 19 | ‘ Would he have gone out on a limb for anyone other than David ? |
| 20 | what time do you have to get up on a Sunday morning ? |
| 21 | Paul joined FWWG in November 1991 as a trainee instrument designer having already gained a HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Glasgow Polytechnic — a fair achievement having started out on a Youth Training Scheme [ YTS ] course as a trainee computer programmer . |
| 22 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |
| 23 | She was neither rich enough nor impressionable enough to have walked out on a well-paid job simply in order to indulge a vapourish mood . |
| 24 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 25 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 26 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 27 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 28 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 29 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 30 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |