Example sentences of "[adv] to my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she recovered , composed herself and accepted , gladly , too , it would seem , much to my own satisfaction . |
| 2 | Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess . |
| 3 | ‘ Do so and dear Uncle will simply laugh and put it down to my youthful impetuosity . |
| 4 | ‘ Put it down to my Sagittarian sense of drama . ’ |
| 5 | I knelt choking , sharp thorns in my throat , acid tears burning my cheeks and dripping down to my young mother 's face , staring up from the floor . |
| 6 | In other words , it was n't very deep , it did n't have a filter , and any informality was down to my indifferent building skills , rather than intentional . |
| 7 | Just put it down to my perverted sense of humour . ’ |
| 8 | At the start of my period of being harassed , I went down to my local law centre to see what help they could give me . |
| 9 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 10 | My illness kept me out of action for a fortnight so it was fully three weeks after the demise of my job before I finally went down to my local Department of Employment offices and ‘ signed on ’ . |
| 11 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 12 | One of the escalators down to my underground platform is out of service , but two others are working . |
| 13 | I could n't settle down to my old life because … ’ |
| 14 | One irate caller promised : ‘ If I was down to my last spoonful of petrol , with a hundred miles still to go , I 'd drive past an Elf station . ’ |
| 15 | So , instead of heading for the ferry port , why do n't we drive down to my little house in the Wicklow Mountains ? ’ |
| 16 | I helped the girls to wash some of the sherds and then wandered down to my favourite spot by the river . |
| 17 | If you go down to my secret chamber and look in one of the coffers you will find a crushed flower , a faded rose , more black than yellow now , but if I smell it and close my eyes ( like I did last night ) , then I am back again in Ralemberg 's garden and my blood runs free and the air is filled with the sweet fragrance of flowers . |
| 18 | This suggestion turned out to be greatly to my own detriment . |
| 19 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 20 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 21 | ‘ And I must away to my Green Line bus — Lydia will be keeping something hot for me . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd slipped out of bed , leaving Margot the launderess and her sister Phoebe gently snoring ( they sleep on either side to keep me warm ) , and crept downstairs to my secret chamber , behind the high table in the Great Hall . |
| 23 | This practical ineptitude filtered through to my sporting life by way of golf . |
| 24 | No from us er yesterday , well last night , well this morning rather , yesterday morning I faxed all the figures through to my head office figures this morning |
| 25 | I 'd given the warden details of our itinerary , and the call got put straight through to my own room here just before we went for lunch . |
| 26 | I take the file over to my improvised seat by the window , by now reluctant to open it . |
| 27 | I think that this Earthwatch expedition could contribute invaluably to my professional development , most obviously because the Maternal Health in Africa project fits so perfectly with my interests and future hopes of becoming a midwife . |
| 28 | In the meantime , if you want to ask questions , come to me , not to my junior staff . |
| 29 | ‘ Funny that , dear , I could n't talk to Lizzie , not to my own daughter . |
| 30 | I like to use cosmetics as close to my natural skin colour as possible . |