Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] 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 Gabriel had cut inside the turn and was racing to meet them on their other flank .
6 By Christ , Dan , how you 've lasted as long as you have amazes me on its own ! ’
7 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
8 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 .
9 ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits .
10 It was pointless to try to catch them on their own ground as their friends were too numerous and their alibis too readily available .
11 Let me update you on my social security saga .
12 Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own .
17 It fell forwards and I managed to catch it on my outstretched forearm .
18 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 .
19 Not sure enough to write it on his precious list .
20 Stone also wrote the film , basing it on his own experiences as a volunteer infantryman in the 25th Infantry ( ‘ Tropic Lightning ’ ) Division .
21 I thought that if I never tried it on my own , I would always wonder whether I could . ’
22 Then he tried it on his own
23 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 .
24 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 ’ .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ .
28 because I ca n't do them on my main one , I 'll have to power up another one and getting wires between them and
29 What you gon na do them on your own ?
30 She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle .
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