Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] my [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why ; only that I want to hear my voice on the answerphone . |
| 2 | He tried to steal my strip on the Island ? ’ |
| 3 | I THINK I MAY BE EXEMPT , DO I STILL NEED TO PUT MY NAME ON THE CANVASS FORM ? |
| 4 | I just want to give my view on the budget . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not presume to counsel my sovereign on the choice of her advisers , ’ he once grandly told a journalist who had rashly asked him how he was going to vote in a parliamentary election . |
| 6 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 7 | I was told to enjoy my life on the dole and they slammed the phone down . ’ |
| 8 | However , as the bitter winter weather approaches , I should like to concentrate my speech on the basic problem of enabling people to find shelter so that hon. Members do not again have to face the awful reality of stepping around people huddled under snow-covered tarpaulins , lying in shop doorways in the streets of our city . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't mind putting my neck on the line when I have to , or when there 's a percentage in it , but anybody who fools with the Severn in these parts just for the hell of it , is an idiot . ’ |
| 10 | Next day , when I arrived to take my seat on the coach to our town , I discovered I was sitting in front of two convicts , who were being taken to the prison-ships by their guard . |
| 11 | The first time I murdered it was because of rabbits meeting a fiery death , and meeting that fiery death from the nozzle of a Flame-thrower virtually identical to the one I had used to exact my revenge on the warren . |
| 12 | And when the public started seeing my name on the back of these albums , the subsequent demand was staggering ! |
| 13 | And , since I 'd often been obliged to meet his other women during the course of his business , I maliciously decided that he would have to encounter my bit on the side , day in and day out . |
| 14 | If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society . |
| 15 | The weather was unexpectedly hot , and had brought out a sudden rash of men leering from shop doorways and cars for a glimpse of female flesh , while Vonetta struggled to find my flat on the sprawling council estate where I live . |
| 16 | He then fortunately disappeared and I proceeded to put my bet on the horse , which I am happy to say romped home at forty to one . |
| 17 | I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company . |
| 18 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 19 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 20 | I am sitting in the darkness , straining to hear my tutor on the phone in the dining-room on the other side of the hall . |
| 21 | So he s , I said to him is it alright , says am I in danger of coasting if I 've got my foot on the if , if I 'm taking the corner in first and I 'm slipping and I got the clutch , I 'm using the engine but I 've , not much |
| 22 | Radio Forth are interested and are hoping to record my progress on the cycle , and to interview all the competitors as they arrive . |
| 23 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 24 | However , this was not argued before us , and I prefer to base my decision on the section 222 point by affirming the judge 's first ground as mentioned above . |
| 25 | I had cut my hand on the gun : it was n't bleeding much but the little finger was bent sideways and I could n't move it . |
| 26 | I mean , I 've put my hand on The Bump lots of times already , and all you can say really when it jiggles about is , ‘ How nice ’ , and ‘ Is n't that interesting ’ and ‘ Wonder if it 's a boy or a girl ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've put my neck on the block for you , Mike . |
| 28 | The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin . |
| 29 | I 'm in the band , it 's got my name on the cover and it 's something I helped produce . |
| 30 | On 12 June 1965 an Honours List was published containing my name on the list of life peers . |