Example sentences of "[adv] to my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am gregarious , cerebral , Geminian , and have sought , somewhat to my cost , to make the world my home . |
| 2 | The mention that I was journeying via Marseilles prompted him to warn me , somewhat to my surprise , not to let the street-girls of the special quarter ( since abolished ) commandeer my hat — a favourite play of theirs to inveigle one inside — which suggested that he had experienced such an approach . |
| 3 | The crisis passed , somewhat to my surprise , and I would not dismiss the possibility that Eliot , acting so as to ensure that the information should not be disclosed to me , had something to do with it . |
| 4 | Track one is a growling , clapping disco song with a peace message , but far better to my ears are ‘ Klangers ’ , a similar groove which sounds like it has in fact got The Klangers on it although it 's probably just a synth , and ‘ The Horns Of Jerricurl ’ ( geddit ? ) which unfolds the depths of their groove and lays bare their sense of humour . |
| 5 | And suddenly to my horror I saw our delightfully edited little film of The Seekers and Georgie Girl . |
| 6 | My only consolation was that , much to my astonishment , the bird dropped the fish . |
| 7 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 8 | Crilly falls asleep , much to my irritation . |
| 9 | ‘ You have a good girl here , ’ he began , much to my relief . |
| 10 | But it was much to my man 's taste , I could see . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have enjoyed having you around , Mr Malamute , much to my surprise . |
| 12 | ‘ Much to my surprise and delight , sure enough in ‘ 84 he contacted me and asked me to take part in the Mozart ‘ Coronation ’ Mass to be performed in front of the Pope the following year . |
| 13 | Much to my surprise she agreed , on condition that we had separate rooms and made our own travel arrangements . |
| 14 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 15 | Much to my surprise he was just at the point of actively seeking more support , and so a relationship began between church and community association which has developed and grown … as has , incidentally , the friendship between their respective leaders . |
| 16 | After many discussions , shaping and reshaping the deal , much to my surprise they said ‘ yes ’ . ’ |
| 17 | But , much to my surprise , I passed the ‘ Scholarship ’ , got my bike , and went to grammar school . |
| 18 | Much to my surprise I was soon out on the water like a regular Captain Pugwash . |
| 19 | Much to my surprise , he led me towards one of the public beer tents . |
| 20 | ‘ We kind of take the acclaim for granted , ’ says Fergal , much to my surprise . |
| 21 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 22 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 23 | This was the first time I met , and it seems that he was satisfied with my performance in the interview , for I was offered the post , much to my surprise and delight . |
| 24 | I had decided that , much to my regret , it would not be possible to plan a DIY funeral for myself as it was not a job I would bequeath to friends , and my nearest close relations who might have co-operated were overseas . |
| 25 | ‘ Having with difficulty crossed the range over an entire new country , and penetrated to the centre of the dense Eucalypti scrub alluded to , in which I spent a night and part of two days without water for my horses , I was compelled , much to my regret , to beat a hasty retreat back to the ranges , in the gullies of which I even found difficulty in obtaining water . |
| 26 | Much to my amazement the tutors do n't yell . |
| 27 | For ten days I spent all my spare time in a question-and-answer session till the experience started to confuse and hurt me , also — much to my horror — defile me . |
| 28 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
| 29 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 30 | I tried this , but much to my disappointment that did n't work either . |