Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 2 | Or just eat them on their own ? |
| 3 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 4 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 5 | BOXING Day and we launch ourselves on our own family tradition — a visit to the theatre . |
| 6 | Gabriel had cut inside the turn and was racing to meet them on their other flank . |
| 7 | By Christ , Dan , how you 've lasted as long as you have amazes me on its own ! ’ |
| 8 | Er right okay well I 'll tell you what , I think erm people are coming to see me until about two or three or so but erm if you come a bit after three you 'll probably catch me on my own |
| 9 | Thousands of warriors collect from the huge Masai district to have their heads shaved by their mothers before undergoing rituals to launch them on their new — somewhat dull — life as elders . |
| 10 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 11 | It was pointless to try to catch them on their own ground as their friends were too numerous and their alibis too readily available . |
| 12 | It is impossible to prove that the rivalries thus engendered endured , or that the king subsequently failed to impose himself on his major followers , favouring some individuals at the expense of others , and allowing his officials to get out of hand , all at the expense of national unity . |
| 13 | Sister Paul , who was the author of several devotional volumes , wrote the special prayer : Heart of Jesus , grant that the eyes of the non-Catholic father of Thy little servants , Martha and Matilda , may be opened , that his tepid soul may become fervent , and that he may return to establish himself on his rightful hearth , Amen . |
| 14 | Let me update you on my social security saga . |
| 15 | Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation . |
| 16 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 17 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 18 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 19 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 20 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 21 | It fell forwards and I managed to catch it on my outstretched forearm . |
| 22 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 23 | Not sure enough to write it on his precious list . |
| 24 | Stone also wrote the film , basing it on his own experiences as a volunteer infantryman in the 25th Infantry ( ‘ Tropic Lightning ’ ) Division . |
| 25 | I thought that if I never tried it on my own , I would always wonder whether I could . ’ |
| 26 | Then he tried it on his own |
| 27 | Let the print drain for a few seconds and place it on your flash enlarger ( that 's why the bin liner ) and now run your flash test across the print . |
| 28 | Let the print drain for a few seconds and place it on your flash enlarger ( that 's why the bin liner ) and now run your flash test across the print Exposure times should exceed your previously established ‘ max.flash ’ . |
| 29 | If you want it on your hard disk , you 've got to get your hands dirty in DOS to create a directory and copy the files from the floppy disk into it . |
| 30 | Grudgingly the British now agreed to a joint expedition , but they were determined to launch it on their own terms , which were quite different from de Gaulle 's . |