Example sentences of "[vb past] on [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But though the stream rose on his own land , he had not obtained the proper extraction licence and so got the water free . |
| 2 | At the entrance to the laboratory complex the others drew on their own masks . |
| 3 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 4 | Relying on the Bible , Roman law , and the classics to explain what ought to be , John also drew on his own experience to describe the contemporary scene . |
| 5 | He demanded the removal of the permanent secretary to the Treasury , Sir Robert ( later Baron ) Chalmers [ q.v. ] , and he countermanded on his own authority a Treasury request for the transfer of gold from Canada . |
| 6 | They based almost all their work on anthropological techniques , but they were interested in the wide variety of life styles that they found on their own doorsteps in Chicago , not in simple societies . |
| 7 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 8 | Turner concentrated on his own task . |
| 9 | The reply , from Stamfordham , said that the letter had been forwarded to the Sovereign , ‘ but added on his own account ‘ I wish you every success in your efforts . ' |
| 10 | He turned on his own torch and started wondering how he was going to get out . |
| 11 | But David Pratt , photographer , has gone off it since he travelled half way round the world 's trouble spots unscathed to be battered and mugged on his own Glasgow south side doorstep . |
| 12 | It is not necessary to suppose that he acted on his own initiative , although this is implied in the Anonimalle Chronicle ( 11 , pp.158–9 ) : possibly his advisers felt that he might be less at risk than they themselves , and that in the circumstances a policy of temporary conciliation was the best course of action . |
| 13 | If this becomes widely known , I will say that you acted on your own initiative , and you will take the consequences . ’ |
| 14 | Likewise , leasing companies were unlikely to be able to retain more than one third of the aircraft they ordered on their own balance sheets . |
| 15 | Nora eased his shirt off and began on her own dress and stays . |
| 16 | Kelly had driven straight home and embarked on her own investigation . |
| 17 | So despite the widespread acceptance of social science in the United States by the early years of the twentieth century , it is possible to produce a sizeable list of American sociologists , all eminent figures in the history of the discipline , who seldom undertook on their own account , systematic data collection of any kind . |
| 18 | Silently she brooded on her own thoughts , unwilling to admit to herself that he presented a challenge . |
| 19 | The defendants used the drawings to manufacture tools which they sold on their own account . |
| 20 | What they got — and I hope they then choked on their own bile in the process — was a performance that enabled English football to hold its head high again . |
| 21 | She choked on her own revulsion ; and she panicked . |
| 22 | One person commented that when the local MP came to talk to his disability group he told them how good it was that they ‘ got on their own feet and did things ’ — which did n't go down too well with the wheelchair users . |
| 23 | Later , Cole comes near to conceding the point : ‘ in the eighties , Trade Unionism and Consumer Co-operation went on their several ways , each shedding much of its earlier idealism and each settling down to consolidate its position within somewhat narrowly delineated fields ’ , which will do as an anodyne description but which , in suppressing the pain , obscures the diagnosis . |
| 24 | To gain experience in practical work , they went on their own initiative to slaughterhouses or the knacker 's yard ; horses were still almost the only animals seen at the College . |
| 25 | I watched the two handsome flags uncurl to the warm wind , then went on my own tour of inspection . |
| 26 | Algy Forrester , something of a fire-eater , stormed on , reaching the hotel , now the centre of German resistance , where he was about to throw a grenade when a shot from the hotel knocked him down and he fell on his own grenade , which exploded to kill him . |
| 27 | She nearly strangled on her own anger . |
| 28 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 29 | Benjamin became lost in his own thoughts so I left him alone and lay on my own bed thinking about Mathilda until the bell sounded for supper . |
| 30 | First-born Fox sons are always named Jonathan , but my mother , who was quite a gifted pianist , insisted on her own choice for Elise and me . ’ |