Example sentences of "have [verb] on [prep] a " 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 | He has stayed on as a special adviser and in April will start teaching at his alma mater , Chuo University . |
| 4 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 5 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 6 | The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field . |
| 7 | The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds . |
| 8 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 9 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 12 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 15 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 16 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy . |
| 22 | She sought to discover where he had obtained the information he was supposed to have passed on to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 23 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 24 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 25 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 26 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 29 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 30 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |