Example sentences of "[adv prt] on their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 3 | I am often bemused by the men who criticize a woman 's shape when they are quite clearly looking down on their own unsightly ‘ pregnant'-looking stomachs . |
| 4 | If a self-access library is to be effective , you need to spend time viewing every recording , putting yourself in the position of trainees sitting down on their own to make what they can of it . |
| 5 | These foods will make up the calories they are losing when cutting down on their saturated fat intake . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Reagan crowd ran against the government and against Sacramento and they came in on their white horses and railed against the Legislature . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Northop Hall set Mochdre a tough test , reaching 181–7 , after being put in on their own track and i reply Mochdre could only muster 136–7 . |
| 10 | To accelerate to flying speed the noses of the floats are now lowered onto their bow waves , lifting their tails from the water and minimising drag by running along on their small middle portion , or step . |
| 11 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 12 | It has an open referral system , so girls can be recommended by their schools , educational welfare officers , maternity hospitals , and a variety of other sources , or they can come along on their own initiative . |
| 13 | Incapable of leaving people to get along on their own breathing their own air , thinking their own thoughts . |
| 14 | There are really three lochs rather than one , almost separate , but joined by narrows , and after a wild winter , when the snows begin to melt , these narrows become rivers in their own right , with ice-cold waters pounding through on their three-and-a-half mile journey to the sea . |
| 15 | These vary in that some are video-led whereas others are based on a collection of written materials which teachers can work through on their own or in a group . |
| 16 | They were off on their seventeen years of Tristan and Isolde . |
| 17 | Cheering them off on their 230 miles ' journey was TV 's ‘ Mr Blobby ’ and Mr John Lambeth , secretary and chief executive of LVFS . |
| 18 | Cheering them off on their 230 miles ' journey was TV 's ‘ Mr Blobby ’ and Mr John Lambeth , secretary and chief executive of LVFS . |
| 19 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 20 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They believe they would be better off on their own . |
| 23 | In turn , this creates even more secret cabals which go off on their own and carry out unauthorised operations , firmly believing that their plan is the only way to make progress . |
| 24 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 25 | In such cases the extended family begins to look quite complex , but it is still essentially based upon the original pair , and when young do become fully adult they are driven away or wander off on their own to form separate pairs . |
| 26 | When they have arrived at the fully mobile stage of their development , but have not yet ventured off on their own , they may accompany their mother on short trips away from the ‘ nest , . |
| 27 | The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him . |
| 28 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 29 | Too large a party , and groups of guests who know each other can split off on their own . |
| 30 | Grown-up sons go off on their own , grown-up daughters stay put or set up splinter groups nearby . |