Example sentences of "start [adv prt] on their [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | So she took up their banner when she was Prime Minister , tempting people to start up on their own with tax and cash inducements . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Very few of my contemporaries thought of starting up on their own . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | And that in Street , that w they had worked in Now I forget the name of the big firm but they 'd come out of one of the big er furniture warehouses and they started up on their own . |
6 | Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own . |