Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Press monopolies inhibit those with different views from launching out on their own . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 7 | Training : Tax relief will be given to employers helping employees leaving their company to set up on their own . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 15 | It had begun the day before , the suggestion of going off on their own , hiring a car . |
| 16 | Or you can actually try freezing them to kill them and then they just drop off on their own . |
| 17 | Most cases clear up on their own , without special treatment . |
| 18 | This is an alternative to war which states could in theory accept without giving up their own moral values , going back on their own factual claims , losing their dignity in the community of nations , or giving up their political endeavours to persuade others to their point of view . |
| 19 | They were finally pouring out on their own . |
| 20 | Lead in : Pupils could look back on their own experience of learning to read and write , and discuss why literacy is so important in our society . |
| 21 | Allow the viewers to look around on their own . |
| 22 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 23 | Even though they were camping illegally the travellers were allowed to stay all weekend , before moving off on their own . |
| 24 | 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 , . |
| 25 | The cavalry were toppled back on their own infantry , most of whom were never engaged . |
| 26 | The first is a request for the pleasure of their company while the second implies slight patronage , and highlights their inability to go out on their own and their need now to be ‘ taken ’ . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ Players are not just training at club sessions , they continue to build up on their own . |
| 28 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 29 | So she took up their banner when she was Prime Minister , tempting people to start up on their own with tax and cash inducements . |
| 30 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |