Example sentences of "on [pron] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be argued that if a connection with florid madness is to be revealed in biographical data this is most likely to be found in a conjunction among extreme cases : the very creative on whom most of the detailed accounts have concentrated . |
| 2 | She says ; I have been out on my own during the day . |
| 3 | Although I work at weekends and evenings , a couple of days on my own with the kids works out just right . |
| 4 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 5 | ‘ When we played Everton I had four people working with me , ’ recalls Biggins , ‘ but now I 'm working on my own for the VAT man . |
| 6 | I was training on my own at the time , and seemed to be constantly injured , so I was n't racing much . |
| 7 | But I remembered her asking whether I did n't go crazy on my own at The Pightle . |
| 8 | Sometimes it 's a bit like a dream , walking on my own down the pavement with all these car lights flashing in my lace . |
| 9 | The figures are based on my own in the 1970s and now bear no relation to the present day , but they serve as a broad outline . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 12 | ‘ It was better than trying to run 22 seconds for 200 metres on my own in the wind and rain at Gateshead . ’ |
| 13 | Then I 'll be on my own in the afternoon there as well . |
| 14 | now I 'm up here all on my own in the higher class ! |
| 15 | When I was left on my own after the death of Uncle , my beasts became my family , I suppose . |
| 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 | line of type on its own at the top or bottom of a page . |
| 18 | Then I noticed the Bible lying all on its own on the other side of the bunk ; the Bible on which I had laid out the relics the night before last , Night Zero . |
| 19 | The truth is , surely , that we can form no reasonable conception of anything called education existing on its own with the kind of value we may like to ascribe to education in the real world . |
| 20 | The church-like building was on its own in the centre of the green . |
| 21 | Once you 've built a fully computerized factory , you can take out the lights , shut the door and leave it to make engines or vacuum cleaners or whatever , all on its own in the dark . |
| 22 | Erm we were travelling through Malaysia and erm it 's just one canopy tree standing on its own in the middle of nowhere . |
| 23 | ‘ I can only remember the Maid 's Hook , ’ said Bessie , ‘ because it stands all on its own in the heavens and has such a definite shape . ’ |
| 24 | When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back . |
| 25 | In a world in which voters place health at the top of their concerns , the UK is still only spending just over 6% compared with 7% plus by Belgium , Finland , Ireland , Italy , Luxembourg , New Zealand , Norway , and Switzerland ; 8% plus by Australia , Austria , France , Germany , Iceland , Netherlands , and Sweden ; 9% plus by Canada ; and dear old USA on its own in the stratosphere with 12% plus . |
| 26 | The mind is on its own in the building . |
| 27 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 28 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 29 | She had dreaded the moment when the food would be done with and the others would get up to dance , leaving her on her own at the table . |
| 30 | On her own at the till , Rachaela removed the extra pound and kept it . |