Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because I ca n't just dump myself on complete strangers … ’ |
| 2 | The solid ground rocked and heaved beneath us , but we were soon gorging ourselves on rich noodles and spicy chilled crabs and lobster — forbidden fruit while amongst our Islamic Bugis . |
| 3 | She , who had always prided herself on total moral and material independence . |
| 4 | The cadets , who had fasted for five days , now gorged themselves on toxic fungi from a death world specially grown in the hydro-culture vats , slurped up glutinous soup made from decomposing venom-gland fish , devoured foul cadavers heaped with stenchful excremental sauce , and chewed their way through discarded parchment and leather , while officers , Battle Brothers , and older cadets dined more modestly on fresh fruit and vegetables . |
| 5 | No Hellenistic poet or philosopher quoted it , although modern scholars have sometimes deluded themselves on this subject . |
| 6 | Zarathustra has certainly dosed himself on some of his own miracle rejuvenators . ’ |
| 7 | So I 've never based myself on any of that , because it 's really just a myth , ’ says Neneh . |