Example sentences of "[adv prt] my [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 2 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 3 | At that instant control called to announce that there was an Air Raid warning and put out all the lights , followed immediately by bombs exploding on the airfield , I knew the airfield well and I stuck to my heading and switched on my landing light just to " feel " the ground , landed and rolled along until I felt a sharp jerk and a bash or two then a complete halt . |
| 4 | Switching on my bedside lamp , I picked up a heavy , blunt instrument ( The Rothmans Football Yearbook 1986/87 and tore open the door . |
| 5 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 6 | Now I know there are some fish willing to feed I will cut down my feed rate to a dozen maggots only when I cast in . |
| 7 | With the hood down my summer sun bleached hair might give the wrong message ? |
| 8 | Like most of my generation , I had never known a war , had never had fear rammed down my throat time and time again like the older generation . |
| 9 | Did you put down my fuel bill for last month ? |
| 10 | My head is naively up there with incredible facts like the speed of light , the concept of millions of light years away , and so on , when Teddy traces his finger down my hip bone . |
| 11 | It 's only the bit of to stuffed down my ear hole . |
| 12 | And I handed over my day timing , now bear in mind this is all in pencil , and she looked at the schedule for May and said you 're not real busy this month , you know , you can take some time off . |
| 13 | I ca n't get over my holiday fling |
| 14 | I ca n't get over my holiday fling |
| 15 | A fly was buzzing over my head ad kept settling on my face . |
| 16 | I step off my chipboard kneeler on to a joist in order to slide the three-foot square board up near the eaves in the corner . |
| 17 | I also had high hopes of the Electricity Board , particularly as I had taken to cutting ‘ Miss ’ off my meter reading cards with scissors and it was one of those cards you are n't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer . |
| 18 | I took off my shoulder bag and binoculars and hung them on nails hammered into the slightly crumbling concrete . |
| 19 | I was wearing the King 's ring , but I took off my Rassendyll family ring and gave it to her . |
| 20 | Pay off my Visa bill ; 8 . |
| 21 | I took off my battle-dress jacket . |
| 22 | The half-hour is up , but as I turn off my tape recorder , Lord Archer shows no signs of wanting to finish . |
| 23 | In contrast , Stephen Timewell , mayor of Taunton in 1682 – 3 , a man who prided himself as having " tamed these stubborn Fanatics " during his term in office , nevertheless found that he too had to " leave off my shop trade , for ever since I have done these things not one of a hundred comes near me to buy or sell and they make it their business to persuade people not to come near me " . |
| 24 | I took off my tin hat to feel the sun on my face . |
| 25 | It is what do I sell to pay off my bank manager and my creditors ? |
| 26 | Slowly I took off my wedding dress and veil . |
| 27 | My mother looked dissatisfied , but I switched off my bedroom light and we were moving downstairs towards Robert and the tray of martinis . |
| 28 | The first year of my research made up my pilot study and from that I decided to carry out a full scale research project . |
| 29 | It was flown by Geoff Dodd , a company pilot : ‘ I picked up my survival suit , cleared Special Branch , and took off for the Isle of Man suited-up and wearing a life-jacket . |
| 30 | I sat down on a milking stool , rolled up my trouser leg and examined the roll of skin which hung like a diploma at the end ofa long graze where the sharp hoof had dragged along . |