Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Firm have come to cheer on their own , to celebrate , and to hold a Council of War . |
| 2 | After carrying out her duties as a home help in the Fermanagh village of Tempo she slips into her unpaid role as she cooks , cares , does the shopping and provides transport for the many village people who have come to depend on her selfless efforts . |
| 3 | Thus the tenant will not be permitted to rely on his own breach of his repairing obligations in order to depress the rent payable on review ( Harmsworth Pension Funds Trustees v Charringtons Industrial Holdings ( 1985 ) 49 P&CR 297 ) , and a surety who had guaranteed the obligations of a tenant was not allowed to rely on the tenant 's failure to register an assignment with the landlord in order to escape liability under his surety covenant ( Cerium Investments v Evans ( 1991 ) 62 P&CR 203 ) . |
| 4 | Whitlock had to be reminded to clip on his compulsory dosemeter badge . |
| 5 | Since formal application for the erection of suitable fencing would only result in further delay it was decided to proceed on our own . |
| 6 | Since formal application for the erection of suitable fencing would only result in further delay it was decided to proceed on our own . |
| 7 | Rome is seen to continue on its headlong path to misery and sin , a symbol of the rejection of Christ for the sake of human idols . |
| 8 | New chairman David Mahony said it has been decided to concentrate on its electrical and electronic businesses . |
| 9 | He chewed coriander seeds to sweeten his breath and , feeling ready to face the world , had decided to put on his newest , cleanest kilt , with the leather sandals and the one headdress left from more prosperous days . |
| 10 | Your application will be even better supported if you can give examples of when you 've had to work on your own , as when decorating your new house or when preparing the accounts of a small business whilst at home with your children . |
| 11 | But , molly-coddled by the government for years , they may not be equipped to stand on their own two feet . |
| 12 | In the party 's new programme , the trade unions have had to backtrack on their central demand , now accepting that a shorter working week will mean reduced wages . |
| 13 | These requirements are bound to conflict on your limited acres , particularly in spring and early summer when a large proportion of your land is laid up for hay or in arable crops . |
| 14 | In The Victorian Sage ( 1953 ) John Holloway revived the faded reputations of Carlyle , Disraeli , George Eliot , Newman , Arnold and Hardy as controversialists , and set himself to show , as a trained philosopher , how Wittgensteinian analysis could be brought to bear on their forgotten polemics . |
| 15 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 16 | I had not intended to intrude on my hon. Friend 's speech , but does he consider that a schoolteacher , whose salary is fixed through national wage agreements by the independent pay review body for teachers and who lives in my hon. Friend 's or my constituency in the south-east , is better able to afford the council tax on a higher band than a teacher who lives in Darlington or elsewhere in the north ? |
| 17 | Respondents to the General Household Survey are regularly asked to report on their subjective state of health . |
| 18 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 19 | Wanted to feed on his masculine dominance , to take his vibrant power with the lure of her own body , to please and be pleasured by him and then to flee , to make her escape back to England without recrimination or the need to analyse her feelings . |
| 20 | Once incorporated into Stalin 's Soviet bloc , the economy was reorientated to rely on its own resources as much as possible , while exporting heavy machinery to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in exchange for raw materials . |
| 21 | If it is to give of its best , however , it must be appreciated and affirmed by being allowed to perform on its own , in addition to leading the singing of the whole congregation . |
| 22 | She was Miss Sarah Anne Walker , an only child left to cope on her own when both her mother and father died . |
| 23 | ‘ But now I do feel bitter about what happened — I really believe I lost the chance to breastfeed my baby because I was left to cope on my own . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ you were allowed to work on your own initiative . |
| 25 | I was allowed to work on my own rather than in the production line . |
| 26 | Tony Bowran feels very strongly about his constant development as a photographer and ensures that time is taken to work on his own projects . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid she 's never learned to stand on her own feet . |
| 28 | This is the only way in which it can be forced to feed on its own surplus fat . |
| 29 | Liley , the Courage League First Division 's leading goalscorer , was left to reflect on his distressing misses from easy positions , but the Boks were buoyant . |
| 30 | ‘ Left to play on their own in a playground , they wo n't promptly break a leg — they will make good choices about the risks they run . |