Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 3 | This department monitors the financial position of Exchange members and requires them to report daily on their aggregate open positions in each contract . |
| 4 | In the aftermath of the Orthodox Church leaders ' summit in Istanbul last month , when the assembled patriarchs spoke — as much in sorrow as in anger — of the proselytism addressed at their flock by what was carefully described as ‘ certain elements ’ in the Catholic Church , the mere presence of so benign a Catholic as Cardinal Hume in Moscow could well encourage local Catholics and Orthodox alike to reassess any confrontational attitudes to one another and to concentrate rather on their common ground , thus furthering mutual respect , concern and understanding . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I found myself just doing things without even thinking about them — my fingers seemed to work away on their own . |
| 7 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 8 | Chinese students sent to university in Russia demonstrated noisily on their cross-country train journeys and , on one occasion that shocked Khrushchev deeply , defecated all over a Mongolian station platform . |
| 9 | They were catapulted back on their own ball , which not only put the pressure on Nicol but meant there could be no back-row moves to take the heat off the threequarters . |
| 10 | Fewer than 10 per cent of house-buyers have full professional surveys carried out on their prospective homes , and only 15 per cent have a mini-survey carried out , according to Britain 's biggest estate agent . |
| 11 | They ‘ memorise ’ the information she supplies , process it somehow , and then , compensating for crosswinds and the movement of the Sun , fly out on their own directly to the flower patch . |
| 12 | Press monopolies inhibit those with different views from launching out on their own . |
| 13 | Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night 's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela , where the Rangers would land that summer . |
| 14 | On average the infants in both groups were operated on on their second day in hospital . |
| 15 | All trainee managers follow the same route ; how fast and how far they develop depends entirely on their individual performance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Reagan crowd ran against the government and against Sacramento and they came in on their white horses and railed against the Legislature . |
| 19 | Such job descriptions as ‘ supervise ’ , ‘ advise ’ and ‘ coordinate ’ do not add value to that while the people can do so on their own . |
| 20 | It can not be an enterprise on its own , but enables its members to facilitate or develop their economic activities through a vehicle ( which may have a legal personality ) , while the members remain jointly and severally liable for the debts of the combined enterprise and are taxed directly on their respective proportionate shares of the profits . |
| 21 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 22 | Feminist solutions to the problems they diagnose depend partly on their theoretical perspective , partly on the specific features of the health policy arena they face in different countries . |
| 23 | Training : Tax relief will be given to employers helping employees leaving their company to set up on their own . |
| 24 | The fourth phase of the development of headhunting may be identified as the splintering of individual consultants from existing firms , to set up on their own , such as Haley from Ward Howell and Egon Zehnder from Spencer Stuart , both in 1964 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is important to remember that there are risks attached to being kind to people in this state , and important also not to underestimate how difficult it may be for such people to reach out on their own . |
| 30 | A breeding colony of blackheaded gulls squabbled noisily on their chosen island . |