Example sentences of "on [pos pn] [det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I brought the boat back from Bilbao in Spain on my own which took five days . |
| 2 | When I told her I was longing to start up on my own she suggested I should take advantage of some of the outhouses — convert them into surgery , waiting-room , office et cetera — and have several rooms in the house for myself . |
| 3 | ‘ When I work on my own it 's more like painting , because I 've got a canvas there and it 's an intuitive thing . |
| 4 | If I was in a bad mood or something and I wanted to be on my own it would be , ‘ Ah , have you had an argument with the girlfriend ? |
| 5 | When I first set up home on my own I had so many bits of ill-assorted furniture that various friends and relatives had given me , that it was difficult to ever imagine having a beautiful home . |
| 6 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 7 | You know I was completely on my own I , I 'd got to make my own decisions . |
| 8 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
| 9 | After one day on my own I am put back on trainee status . |
| 10 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 11 | The first day I could walk on my own I walked out . |
| 12 | And the thing is with my kids , if I was in the car on my own I could imagine chatting away |
| 13 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
| 14 | you know , but I 'm there on my own I can pot do my hair , do what I wan na do go up the stairs , have a bath , you know , just do what I , drop my clothes where I wan na drop them and everything . |
| 15 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 16 | Oh if I was me and I was on my own I 'd ha I 'd have to have the telly in the bedroom . |
| 17 | That 's why when I , when I go round the video shop on my own I usually go Jordans . |
| 18 | Cos I do n't like going in there on my own I feel intimidated . |
| 19 | I 'm really , really bored so I just thought seeing as I 'm on my own I 'd just tell you some slang erm for teenage languages . |
| 20 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 21 | Not just on my own he just said that , it was a bit bad cos I , I said to him , you know , who 's going and he listed like er reeled off , I ca n't remember , reeled off a load of blokes yes last night and I said are there any girls going and he said well I 'll see if I can get Laura and Giles to come and I said yeah I feel much better about that , you know , whatever and then today he said erm look ca n't go and was a real , I du n no he 's got something and he 's usually like the real medium and he , you know , if there 's e if there 's ever like a pregnant pause then he 's the one that like keeps it all going |
| 22 | And this old chassis had been built up so that this bearing lay on that and it was turned by and electric motor and all that and the boring bar went tool went and bored this bearing out and travelled along on its own its own It was fed off course . |
| 23 | a cup of tea on its own She was quite pleased with her t-shirt . |
| 24 | If you think that the result of your soft weaving effort will not have enough body on its own you can always use it as a supplement to another knitted pattern stitch . |
| 25 | A very nice symbolic action , but on its own it gets us exactly nowhere . |
| 26 | On its own it 's weighty enough ; but then you must add fourteen golf clubs , a dozen or so balls , an umbrella , a set of waterproofs , spare sweaters , caps and visors , half a dozen golf gloves , a book of rules , tins of sweets , bars of chocolates , apples , bananas and other fruit and , in Jack Mason 's case , sometimes a couple of bottles of strong beer . |
| 27 | Re-released on its own it could 've been a winner , but a dodgy arcade section that feeds in dud results makes the game unplayable — what 's the point in managing a team that gets a goalless draw every week , whatever you do ? |
| 28 | Left on its own it would quickly revert to a wilderness . |
| 29 | Do not forget that that is a term on its own it 's got n connected to this yet . |
| 30 | As soon as it stands on its own it ceases to be a clause and becomes a simple sentence . |