Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] on [prep] " 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 | My first book was an experiment to see if I could write and it has just gone on from there . ’ |
| 3 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 4 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 5 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 6 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 7 | TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 13 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 14 | And if memory serves ( what was she called , that girl who did the PR for Windscale , Sellafield I should say , and Aldershot FC ? ) , oh yes , Daphne Grierson , who has now moved on to greater things and is image adviser to Nigel Canada ( is that correct ? ) the teenage fiddle-player . |
| 15 | He has just finished his GCSE 's and has now moved on to ‘ A ’ levels at sixth form . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The 12-year-old has now moved on to Branksome School , but still keeps in close contact with Philip , who lives next door . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Hornby , founded in 1908 , has now moved on from trains and cars to sell dolls and video games . |
| 20 | She turns to the visitor , who has now subsided on to a settee . |
| 21 | Sir John Hall ( who has n't cottoned on to the sponsored pitch idea yet ) said after assuming the chairmanship of Newcastle United ‘ If this was a business it would have failed ’ . |
| 22 | Any character who has n't hung on at least 8 feet up the stairs ( 9 feet for a Dwarf , 10 for a Halfling ) will be submerged below the filth . |
| 23 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 24 | These people have fears which the media has shamelesslessly played on over the years , but which are genuine . |
| 25 | It has evidently come on since then . |
| 26 | Over the last seven months , Lawrence has quietly got on with a rebuilding job at Ayresome Park . |
| 27 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 28 | Prothero the demon-king has never bounded on to the stage more sulphurously than in Hugh Kenner 's The Pound Era : |
| 29 | It is just as well that the tax price index , introduced by Nigel Lawson in an attempt to distract attention away from the inflationary impact of switching taxation from direct to indirect taxes , has never caught on as an indicator . |
| 30 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |