Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 2 | ‘ I got my chance in the national side when injuries put me into the match against Romania in Bucharest three years ago . |
| 3 | When I got my hands under the protruding portion I realized there was no point in heaving . |
| 4 | Because how does Philip know that in five years ' time , I 'm not going to ring him up and say , hey you know when you recommended me to invest my money in the Japanese fund , well it 's just gone through the bottom of the market . |
| 5 | This process and this work represent my own attempts to acknowledge my position as a feminist artist and seriously to consider my responsibility and accountability as such . |
| 6 | ‘ I will make my judgment about the overall balance of taxation in the economy at that time , ’ he insisted . |
| 7 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 8 | That was how she met my father in the early years of the war . |
| 9 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Turning to its startled owner , she shouted , ‘ You filthy brute , touching my bottom in a crowded train ! ’ |
| 11 | The music of Throwing Muses has inhabited my flesh like a cold flame these past six months . |
| 12 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 13 | By a week before Christmas , I was beginning to see my way across the spare bedroom at home , or the stockroom as my other half styles it , and light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 14 | I 'm now playing live again , and I want the audience to see my recovery as a positive thing . |
| 15 | ‘ I want the audience to see my recovery as a positive thing ’ |
| 16 | I began to see my environment in a new light as I connected the shapes and patterns I found in it with mathematics . |
| 17 | Another recently asked my advice about the finer points of his own computer program so that he might catalogue more accurately his card collection , so vast had it become ( if any one has a mint Drummahoe No 1 , he would be most indebted ) . |
| 18 | I seemed all set to continue my way to the top outdoors , but as it turned out , the highlight of my summer was getting my photograph in Athletics Weekly , the bible of the sport , for the first time . |
| 19 | I began by reading English and French and , after my mother 's trial , I was allowed to continue my studies by the personal intervention of Rákosi — by his special grace — because my godmother , my father 's first wife , was an extremely popular actress on the national stage , a great star . |
| 20 | The small flock of eight flitted before me along the hedgerow , drawing my attention to a white post in a bed of slender St John 's wort and wood sage . |
| 21 | I am helping my Pa with the outdoor work , as is right and proper . |
| 22 | I sat eating my sandwiches in a grumpy sulk at the top of a mountain recently , while the pack of men surrounding a paraglider prepared him for take-off . |
| 23 | I put the list away in my file , lock the room and carefully pick my way down the little staircase . |
| 24 | I just have to be careful as I pick my way past the grubby piles of snow at the edges of the pavement . |
| 25 | To the right was the outline of the dovecot where , as a child , standing in the doorway with my back to the sunlight , I fought my shadow with a wooden sword . |
| 26 | Overcome with necromancy , greed and competitiveness , she rushed out and began stroking my jacket in an ingratiating manner . |
| 27 | But this purported resolution of the paradox , as Fried concedes , only demonstrates the compatibility of uninhibited freedom to enter contracts with respect for autonomy ; it ‘ does not show that I am morally obligated to perform my promise at a later time if to do so proves inconvenient or costly ’ . |
| 28 | Just as well the control panel 's on the outside , Bernice told herself , saves me wasting my energies on a futile attempt to crack the combination . |
| 29 | I plucked one of the torches from the wall and crouched down , wrinkling my nose at the mild sour odour . |
| 30 | After a few days my condition improved , the weather changed dramatically , and I made my way across the cultivated , fertile fields of Normandy . |