Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The man in the field must be prepared to work on his own and work conscientiously . |
| 2 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 3 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 4 | And that would leave City free to concentrate on their first round FA Cup tie with Altrincham in a much happier frame of mind . |
| 5 | Where there is no joint action , each member state is entirely free to act on its own . |
| 6 | Your decision here will obviously depend to some extent on whether you already have an aircraft radio and just how much you are prepared to spend on your first model . |
| 7 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 8 | Following the completion of Rebel Without a Cause , Warners put him straight to work on his third movie , Giant , an epic directed by George Stevens and featuring a stellar line-up including Elizabeth Taylor , Rock Hudson , Sal Mineo and Carroll Baker . |
| 9 | Moscato Spumante , Frassino £3.99 A sweet white wine from Italy , it was described as having a low local alcohol content which makes it easy to drink on its own and as an aperitif . |
| 10 | Wait near the toilet for any resident who is unsafe to leave on their own and help them back to their room . |
| 11 | What does a course do for students that they would find difficult or impossible to do on their own ? |
| 12 | Watson 's absence gave the home side 's attack a threadbare look , at least on paper and Gooch and Stewart looked set to capitalise on its relative inexperience and some profligate catching after the England captain won his first toss of the series . |
| 13 | During 1986 , when several of The Wedding Present 's contemporaries were signed to major deals , they told the press they were quite content to stay on their own label but , in reality , they wanted to sign with a major label too . |
| 14 | Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples . |
| 15 | It is all too easy to rely on whatever previous parties have left in place . |
| 16 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 17 | Yeah , he said we 're not supposed to go on our own ! |
| 18 | Graham Gooch leads the senior side to India and Sri Lanka , but after failing to make an impact in the Test team during the series against Pakistan he seemed more likely to go on his third A-team tour , this time to Australia . |
| 19 | If your mind is on the new member of the family you 're probably less likely to concentrate on your own aches and pains , regardless of whether they are physical or psychological . |
| 20 | Shortly before Gundovald 's death Guntram had recognized Childebert as reaching his majority : he was therefore fit to rule on his own . |
| 21 | In Jan 's book , all men are Bastards and some worse than others , and the one she was married to found it hard to walk on his hind legs . |
| 22 | What you need to do , in using the expression , is to anticipate what effect its use is likely to have on your probable readers — and act accordingly . |
| 23 | However , all this was in the future and hard to visualise on our first visit . |
| 24 | In a world of integrated capital markets , countries are often unwilling to reflate on their own , when they might be willing to reflate in concert . |
| 25 | Having broken the ice , the shy one then feels more confident to contribute on his own later . |
| 26 | The best possible outcome of the counselling process is where individuals actually begin to feel sufficiently confident to act on their own initiative , on their own behalf , and to follow the objectives that best match their own ideas about themselves and their lives . |
| 27 | Derbyshire , North Wales and South Wales had about three-quarters of the working wives able to cope on their own . |
| 28 | Often it is girls from already deprived backgrounds who end up in such circumstances , and who are less able to cope on their own . |
| 29 | The sparkle was back in Diana 's eyes as she was able to concentrate on her favourite issues — visiting children , the sick and the elderly . |
| 30 | And the more these artists are able to work on their own , or become very powerful , then the more precious and ungrown-up they tend to become . |