Example sentences of "[verb] my [adj] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I 'd love to see my real name on the spine of a book . ’ |
| 2 | Aunt Kit never wrote , it would have shamed her to write my married name on the envelope , but she knitted for the baby , strange , holey garments that stretched to a huge size when I washed them , big enough for a prize boxer . |
| 3 | I did it so vigorously , however , that I slightly cut my lower lip on the edge of the hard black instrument . |
| 4 | In treating the subject in this way , I have necessarily imposed my own interpretation on the material . |
| 5 | It 's for our new one again you see so I rolled the front seat down put my brief case on the front seat so he says , where 's your van then mate ? |
| 6 | I rattle my empty mug on the table . |
| 7 | ‘ And I suppose my first step on the path would be to tell you where the jade is ? ’ |
| 8 | The worst thing was having to climb that damned ladder to the roof of Flying Control in a howling gale and lashing rain , to see how far I could n't see across the air field and to estimate the strength of the wind which was doing its best to dislodge my desperate hold on the railing . |
| 9 | Oh yes — I 'll still swing my mighty axe on the adventure pages too ! |
| 10 | I congratulate my hon. Friend on the Government 's significant progress in reducing corporate tax rates . |
| 11 | I congratulate my hon. Friend on the £25 million technology schools initiative to further technical education in schools . |
| 12 | Not only am I happy to join my hon. Friend in congratulating that successful exporter , but I congratulate my hon. Friend on the energetic and effective way in which he has supported Beloit Walmsley in winning those contracts . |
| 13 | Not merely that , I was putting my strongest accent on the syllable that was n't ! |
| 14 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
| 15 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 16 | ‘ Tired by a long and laborious day 's walk under a burning sun , I frequently encamped for the night by the side of a river , a natural pond , or a water-hole , and before retiring to rest not unfrequently stretched my weary body on the river 's bank ; while thus reposing , the surface of the water was often disturbed by the little concentric circles formed by the Ornithorhynchus [ duck-billed platypus ] , or perhaps an Echnidna [ anteater ] came trotting up towards me . |
| 17 | I am sure that the whole House will wish to join me in congratulating my hon. Friend on the recognition of his distinction , not least in defending the business and small business communities in this country . |