Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [adv prt] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a strong crosswind I sighted over my mentor 's left shoulder during the approach , only moving my head from side to side in the final stages to get a symmetrical perspective for the flare . |
| 2 | One Friday afternoon I hand over my gauzy cream tunic and slip into a kind of butcher 's apron , epically and namelessly stained . |
| 3 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 4 | And with those echoes ringing in my ears I booked up my day — and contemplated my fate . |
| 5 | Over the next two months I stripped out my stereo and taught myself to re-fit it from scratch following various manuals and the original wiring installation . |
| 6 | Whilst the ladies sat in the pavilion and the knights and their squires stood at their stations I took up my position at the serving table . |
| 7 | Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron . |
| 8 | Every night I take off my make-up with baby lotion then I tone it and put moisturizer on . |
| 9 | As soon as I arrive home at night I wash off my make-up and pull on my scruffiest clothes . |
| 10 | On one occasion I screwed up my courage to ask if I could come in at 9 p.m. instead , at which Harold looked puzzled and asked why . |
| 11 | At the station I pick up my other parcel from Left Luggage , and toss it in a holdall . |
| 12 | Here in the flat I take off my shoes and pad about in slippers because maybe I 'll find it calming . |
| 13 | At the approach to the bridge I take off my burdens and lay them down . |
| 14 | So it was naturally with great affection and nostalgia that as an adult I laced up my boots on a damp October morning at the starting point in the station car park at Bridge of Orchy , in preparation to find out what really lurked at the top of Beinn Dorain . |
| 15 | The wide chimney went without a nut and at the limit of the rope I toppled over my sack and sank onto a ledge . |
| 16 | Back in the boiler-room with the ten-gallon bags I roll up my sleeves and rummage in heaps of bloody lint and plaster , cracked phials and syringes , crushed cultures . |
| 17 | To save time I make up my float rigs beforehand and put them on pole winders . |
| 18 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 19 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |