Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 2 | My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Muslims . |
| 3 | ‘ My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Moslems . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My heart goes out to the father and to all the family . |
| 5 | Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house . |
| 6 | ‘ My sympathy goes out to the people of Gateshead who have suffered a similarly sickening attack and I believe the government must now ensure that there is a positive and rapid response to meet the concerns of local residents . ’ |
| 7 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 8 | My mind turns instead to the communality of this experience , of all those post-war babies competently handled but generally left alone , down the bottom of the garden in their prams , in the fresh air and out of the way . |
| 9 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 10 | He drove in silence then and I closed my eyes , pretending I was asleep , my head nodding , and all the time my mind reaching forward to the future , trying to visualise what it would be like on the boat . |
| 11 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 12 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 13 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |
| 14 | My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar . |
| 15 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 16 | My scepticism relates both to the planning and execution of this menu . |
| 17 | My gaze went frequently to the other bearer of that awful secret . |
| 18 | As Frankenstein 's gaze had recently done , my gaze turned up to the ceiling , beyond which lay the laboratory — with all its gruesome secrets now accessible to me ! |
| 19 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 20 | My father reached forward to the only chair in the room , a small wooden one , and placing both hands on its back , brought himself to his feet . |
| 21 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 22 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 23 | My father went off to the park . |
| 24 | ‘ I wonder how long it took for my message to get through to the patrol cars on the road , ’ Patrick said . |
| 25 | Her shape descended and she settled herself beside me , in awkward abundance , and my hand reached out to the white pulp of her shoulder . |
| 26 | My brain adjusted slowly to the Russian language and to Victor 's hair . |