Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She nearly strangled on her own anger . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I watched the two handsome flags uncurl to the warm wind , then went on my own tour of inspection . |
| 5 | 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 . |