Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 2 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 3 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 4 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 5 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 6 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 7 | Leaning forward into the harness and pushing with all my might , I could not move . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 9 | There is the thought that this story might fulfil me as nothing ever has done in all my life previous to this . |
| 10 | The best-known instance is from the second century , the will of Longinus Castor ( AD 189 ) , which includes the words : ‘ Whoever should be my heir , let him be obliged to give , do , and perform all that is written in this my will , and I entrust that to his faith . ’ |
| 11 | But I can still only see through half my eye . |
| 12 | I push the man 's behind up , liking with all my might . |
| 13 | I have never been so humiliated in all my life . |
| 14 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 15 | This happened on both my Brother machines , the 950i and the 836 , which sit at right angles to one another in the same room . |
| 16 | Yes , luckily he 's gon na look at all my flexi . |
| 17 | ‘ This is the time , and I am saying what I mean with all my heart . |
| 18 | try to get rid of all my baby stuff and , so what I 'm going to do is advertise in the paper and then |
| 19 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 20 | I am spending about all my time on the bloody thing — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It seems like all my life . |
| 22 | I screamed and pulled with all my might , shaking my hands and my head and throwing myself backwards and over as I did so , banging one knee off the gun where it lay , fallen in the sand . |
| 23 | ‘ Isambard would hardly make him privy to what he 's done , if this is indeed his work , as I swear I believe with all my soul it is , ’ said Owen . |
| 24 | For that reason , by the time these lines appear , you will no longer be reading about either my campaign for party leader or that of various other candidates for deputy . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , I should be wanting , as twenty years ago , to lean with all my weight in that direction . |
| 26 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I could lose everything I 've earned and fought for all my life to get where I got . |
| 28 | Only think of all my anxiety , the fears and sorrows I have had to endure for the last fortnight … |
| 29 | This I do with all my heart . |
| 30 | But I did kick the drug , Mr Breakspear , and it was probably the hardest damned thing I ever did in all my life . |