Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] 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 | I was told to enjoy my life on the dole and they slammed the phone down . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Radio Forth are interested and are hoping to record my progress on the cycle , and to interview all the competitors as they arrive . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A NASTY SCENE the other night after I refuse to put my hand on The Bump . |
| 19 | I always have to keep my eye on the clock . ’ |