Example sentences of "on [pron] own [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 2 | now I 'm up here all on my own in the higher class ! |
| 3 | The figures are based on my own in the 1970s and now bear no relation to the present day , but they serve as a broad outline . |
| 4 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 5 | Then I noticed the Bible lying all on its own on the other side of the bunk ; the Bible on which I had laid out the relics the night before last , Night Zero . |
| 6 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 7 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 8 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 9 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 10 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 11 | At all centres we complete your logbooks at the end of the holiday , and most beginners are happily sailing on their own by the second week . |
| 12 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 13 | With the information she had given him , he approached the Fleming house in Queen Charlotte 's Alley in the hope of seeing Peter on his own without the disturbing presence of Sarah . |
| 14 | Now Tony is a wonderfull player ( just in case his mother has actually joined up ) but playing on his own on the left wing ? ? ? ? ? ? |
| 15 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 16 | Rigney has been training quietly on his own over the past few weeks and believes that he will be back in action in the New Year for Greystones . |
| 17 | The 24-year-old has claimed all three Blades goals so far and is out on his own as the leading candidate for Lineker 's shirt , according to team-mate Ian Bryson . |
| 18 | After Rose and the boy had gone to bed he sat on his own by the raked fire , sitting motionless , staring down at the floor . |
| 19 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 20 | This new multimedia thingamajig allows you to discover things on your own through the wondrous use of the hypermedia approach to education . |
| 21 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |
| 22 | You know she 's got ta find someone else to go an and live with because by and large you ca n't survive on your own in the Australian outback certainly not if you 're a woman , hardly if you 're a man . |