Example sentences of "have [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
| 2 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 3 | And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team . |
| 4 | Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group . |
| 5 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 6 | ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni . |
| 7 | But I 'm thinking , I 'm think I 've got this terrible feeling I 'd have to come on with the princess , if we 've just got married |
| 8 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 9 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 10 | Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here . |
| 11 | On average , a sixteen-year-old recruit to farming will have moved on by the age of twenty-three — ; usually to the building and construction or road haulage industries . |
| 12 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 13 | He might have got on to the motorway . ’ |
| 14 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 15 | He may have shimmied on to the scene a little late , but watch out for his name on the smoochy compilations for Christmas 1993 . |
| 16 | ‘ Besides , the fans did n't have to run on to the pitch . |
| 17 | The fact that a sociologist was witnessing the interviews make it all the more certain they would be conducted with scrupulous care , but there was no way he would be given access to the extra-legal deals which may well have gone on outside the interview room or later during a prison visit for ‘ write-offs ’ . |
| 18 | Sponge-fishing may also have gone on from the ports , though there is no direct evidence of it . |
| 19 | " I can show you how , " he promised , " but we would have to hold on to the back of a chair . " |
| 20 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 21 | I shall allow questions to continue until 4.30 , after which we shall have to move on to the debate . |