Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Press monopolies inhibit those with different views from launching out on their own . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 6 | It had begun the day before , the suggestion of going off on their own , hiring a car . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Russians stuck firmly to the Moscow terminology of December 1945 , including the reference to trusteeship , the reason being that they wished to prevent the Americans from going back on their past support for trusteeship . |
| 9 | They were finally pouring out on their own . |
| 10 | Even though they were camping illegally the travellers were allowed to stay all weekend , before moving off on their own . |
| 11 | She 'd point up in the air , where the Gnats were zipping around on their little gliders , like little pointed flower petals in the sky . |
| 12 | These foods will make up the calories they are losing when cutting down on their saturated fat intake . |
| 13 | To accelerate to flying speed the noses of the floats are now lowered onto their bow waves , lifting their tails from the water and minimising drag by running along on their small middle portion , or step . |
| 14 | Very few of my contemporaries thought of starting up on their own . |
| 15 | Then , then of course there were n't no traffic signs in the middle of the road , it was a sort of er certain people from went and started that up and er they were all wor all worked in Caldmore it was almost as though the tailoring Caldmore was full of tailors in a way then there were people starting up on their own making clothes , but er there was quite a lot of tailors around er I know there was he 'd got a shop on Caldmore , he was a tailor and er shall we go through all the shops ? |
| 16 | It is argued that the breadth and depth of the market in small company shares is suffering , particularly as the volume of trading in smaller company shares has dropped since the crash of October 1987 as investors have fled to blue chip shares , and the number of brokers cutting back on their small firms business has increased . |
| 17 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 18 | Other additions to make the supplement obsolete come mainly from the deep south , where Geoff Hornby and Suzi Sammut have been cruising around on their Luxury Liner ( E3 5c ) , which is a variant on their own Crinoid Cruise . |
| 19 | Monsterland are some kind of weird Beatles from hell , Hüsker Dü without the ennui factor , badly-produced feedback guitar shouters from Nowheresville who start off like Mudhoney , turn into late-era Byrds and then go haring off on their revving guitars before we can have them arrested . |
| 20 | If a self-access library is to be effective , you need to spend time viewing every recording , putting yourself in the position of trainees sitting down on their own to make what they can of it . |
| 21 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 22 | Look out for anyone standing around on their own , and if possible try to involve them in what you are doing . |
| 23 | A lady in one of the flats said , there are still children playing about on their own . |
| 24 | Just sitting and looking into space , or just carrying about on their own . |
| 25 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 26 | Contestants will line up at the Blundellsands Hotel , Crosby , at 8am on Sunday and will then parade through the city centre before setting off on their cross-Channel jaunt . |
| 27 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |
| 28 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 29 | ‘ The costs are the biggest bar to people setting up on their own but I could use his phones , his photocopier , computer , telex , even his secretary to begin with . ’ |
| 30 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |