Example sentences of "have not [vb pp] on " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The debtor says that she has not carried on business in this country since 8 May 1987 , the date upon which the business was sold . |
| 2 | But HDTV has not caught on . |
| 3 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 4 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 5 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Erm there are just a couple of points that the director has n't touched on erm because they 're probably outside his direct remit . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ta ta oh , at least it has n't come to rain again pull Oh my light has n't come on |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd not got on at Didcot , though . |
| 12 | Mr Major explained how he was carrying on the principles of his predecessor and pointed out that he was her seconder in the leadership ballot and regretted that she had not stayed on . |
| 13 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 14 | In cases where the respondent is a non-governmental body , it may be possible to ask whether there is evidence that if the respondent had not taken on the function in question , the government would have . |
| 15 | By their mid teens young people were able to earn , and were sexually mature , but had not taken on independent economic responsibilities . |
| 16 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 17 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 18 | The modern habit of Oxford dons ' merely coming into their colleges to teach , and perhaps lunch , before cycling or driving home to their wives and children had not caught on . |
| 19 | By the end of the 1920's Miss Lintorn-Orman 's brand of Fascism had not caught on and the Bolshevik revolution in England , which it had been formed to combat , had ceased to be an event worth waiting for . |
| 20 | But Caroline had not hired on as a saleswoman , and she 'd certainly not hired on to be sociable . |
| 21 | By a notice of appeal dated 29 November 1991 the debtor appealed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order because she had not carried on business in England or Wales within three years prior to the presentation of the petition . |
| 22 | But he may find his new sporting pursuits bunkered by some retirement activity he had n't planned on . |
| 23 | After that she reckoned that if she had n't moved on to somewhere bigger , she 'd probably be stuck here forever reading out the latest sheep prices at six o'clock every morning . |
| 24 | If you had n't moved on , someone would care now . |
| 25 | He was glad he had n't gone on to the Reserve after the Armistice , as Tubby had — though , if he had , he would have stayed retired . |
| 26 | But it was an improvement on William 's taste in art and they served a good pint of bitter , and Preston might almost have settled back to enjoy it if he 'd been able to forget their reason for being there and if Emily had n't kept on at him about William and the Black Death . |
| 27 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 28 | Maybe one of the reasons Microsoft Corp 's NT is n't pegged to go on Sparc is because it 's little endian and Sparc is big endian : we 've heard that it would mean a major rewrite , something Bill Gates had n't figured on . |
| 29 | Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had ! |
| 30 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |