Example sentences of "it have [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what she forgot as she jogged on the spot was that even though time might have stood still for her , it has moved on for her 31-year-old husband Slim Jim McDonald . |
| 2 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | It broadcast the opening speeches on each day of the debate on the Queen 's Speech in 1989 ( when televising started ) ; it has stayed on after 3.50 pm on some Tuesdays or Thursdays to cover important ministerial statements ; and it has had special editions to cover the Budget and other major debates . |
| 6 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 7 | The Official Solicitor answered the call of the court within minutes and , although this application only came to the notice of the court officials at 1.30 p.m. it has come on for hearing just before 2 p.m. and now at 2.18 p.m . |
| 8 | It had toppled on to her as she played in the garden at their home in Macclesfield , Cheshire . |
| 9 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 10 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 11 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 12 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 13 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 14 | After an initial flurry of outraged interest from male English dons and undergraduates , it had gone on to be studiously ignored by them . |
| 15 | All because it had ventured on to a lake where models were banned . |
| 16 | It had to go on for ever . |
| 17 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 18 | The pottery was as late as any in Roman Britain and even included one sherd thought to be ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ since it had impressed on to it a Saxon type of stamp ; however , the vessel was wheel-turned and clearly of Romano-British manufacture . |
| 19 | Yeah , one two three four , it 's gone on to , you know , it 's into April and I just wonder whether that was , that 's alright . |
| 20 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 21 | There 's this man on this tree , it 's about 50 feet tall , the tree , and he 's er he 's just crouched on there , sitting there now , with a blue rope round his neck , and it 's tied on to the tree . |
| 22 | It 's gotten on to her land and off her land and into the ditch , which is you know the N R A |
| 23 | six years ago , seven years ago and you know it 's moved on from there and I made the point , yes it was started in the point a at the level of , there 's a file it 's got information , get on with it ! |
| 24 | It 's put on by the Rotary Club of Alfreton . |
| 25 | So they 're just after a kind of random sample of Aston lecturers and as as the official random sample keep forgetting to put the er put the tape in the machine , or turn it on or whatever , it 's handed on to me so I 'm now wired up to an extraordinary degree . |
| 26 | And so it 's passed on to the person in the school or college responsible for that . |