Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 2 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
| 3 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 4 | He noted a marked increase in exhibitions devoted to modern decorative arts : in 1995 the Art Institute of Chicago , for example , will be presenting a show on twentieth-century British silversmiths whilst the current series of design exhibitions at the Bauhaus Archive has included one on metalwork . |
| 5 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 6 | My mother has rung me on a Sunday morning and said oh you had a row last night and I 'd say how do you know oh your father went to paper shop this morning . |
| 7 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 8 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 9 | Since then , Dr Richardson has met him on many occasions , and he conveyed the university 's invitation to the Dalai Lama . |
| 10 | The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’ |
| 11 | Logically this may not seem to make sense , yet for Christians it is like paradox pointing beyond a neat literalism to that reality which has impinged itself on them . |
| 12 | Use this form to tell us exactly how it has helped you on the farm or even in your contracting business . |
| 13 | Despite bad publicity surrounding child abuse allegations which has dogged him on previous stops in Thailand , Singapore and Taiwan , Jackson 's Japanese fans made clear that , for them , their idol could do no wrong . |
| 14 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 15 | Mozart has shown us on many occasions in his scores how delightful a melodic phrase can sound when given to bassoon and flute at two octaves distance . |
| 16 | The Synod meets at Westminster , just over the road from the Palace of Westminster , and although a relatively modern institution ( 1970 ) , it has modelled itself on its parliamentary cousins . |
| 17 | There 's one if you pick up one there I think one of those cards there has got one on the planner and one on the erm |
| 18 | Rocket has got one on his ear . |
| 19 | Nisodemus has got something on his mind , he thought . |
| 20 | He has got something on wheels from us |
| 21 | As radical mutations go , the state of British broadcasting has got nothing on Kafka . |
| 22 | And Piers has got nothing on his side . |
| 23 | The sun has got his on hip hip hip hooray . |
| 24 | However in America , where addictions are almost as mandatory as seeing the ‘ shrink ’ , a new wave of ‘ ca n't do withouts ’ has unleashed itself on society . |
| 25 | The Operations Officer has briefed us on a shot fired from one of the Turkish observation towers . |
| 26 | The reader who has bought your book has bought it on the understanding that this is what will happen . |
| 27 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 28 | Doolittle has based himself on what seems a pellucidly consequential and intelligently written play by Rex Deverell ( also the librettist ) ; and though the piece is offered as ‘ best suited … to alternative audiences ’ , it cuts an oddly respectable figure in the modestly louche surroundings of Chapter . |
| 29 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 30 | The psychoanalytical school , almost by definition has based itself on supra-historical assumptions which have been almost valueless in detailed analyses . |