Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] on their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |
| 2 | The Reagan crowd ran against the government and against Sacramento and they came in on their white horses and railed against the Legislature . |
| 3 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 4 | And that in Street , that w they had worked in Now I forget the name of the big firm but they 'd come out of one of the big er furniture warehouses and they started up on their own . |
| 5 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |
| 6 | When they went out on their own with girls , they tended to fix things for the same evening so as not to spend two nights separated where one would do . |
| 7 | Tina Brown , editor of Vanity Fair , says , ‘ What no one really explained to women , as they went out on their feminist forays , was that they were giving up something . |
| 8 | When Frankie arrived on Tuesday afternoon with his printing order , he got hold of Mark and they went off on their own . |