Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] on their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Jardine and Johnstone guessed that they had decided to strike out on their own now , no doubt reluctant to have to share any of their gleanings with others . |
| 3 | They had been briefed to report in on their mobile telephone at certain checkpoints en route , and to inform the Ops Room of any suspicious incidents , but their main task was to stop and talk to locals , in order to make their presence known in as friendly a way as possible . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ Players are not just training at club sessions , they continue to build up on their own . |
| 5 | Monsterland are some kind of weird Beatles from hell , Hüsker Dü without the ennui factor , badly-produced feedback guitar shouters from Nowheresville who start off like Mudhoney , turn into late-era Byrds and then go haring off on their revving guitars before we can have them arrested . |
| 6 | Pictured setting out on their European tour are the Old Quarries five-a-side football squad and staff . |
| 7 | She did not think boys did go off on their own like that . |
| 8 | The disabled who choose to strike out on their own can , of course , turn to their local social services department for help and advice . |
| 9 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 10 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 11 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 12 | THE new Low Fat Cheesecakes from McVities ( pictured right ) are a long-awaited treat for all those trying to cut down on their fat intake and on their calories . |
| 13 | The ( ahem ) mirror-smooth coffee-table sheen of the Mondays ' ‘ Yes Please ’ conjures up little but complacency and water-treading : Shaun and co were once kings of the dirty , demonic rhythmscape , now the New FADs have moved in on their old manor and staked whole new claims in the still fertile soil of rock-dance crossover . |
| 14 | This process occurs as a result of five stages , sometimes known as the ABCDE approach , which is illustrated with an example of a man whose girlfriend fails to turn up on their first date . |
| 15 | However , waves do not cause spin out on their own ; it is partly a result of bad technique . |
| 16 | How much money has been spent in the past year on promoting the donor card , compared with that spent on the more partisan promotional material which the Government have put out on their other health policies ? |
| 17 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |