Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I like , I 'll throw my dinner on the floor and put clams in my hair and have tantrums , and … ’ |
| 2 | I got my schooling on the hoof . ’ |
| 3 | And when the public started seeing my name on the back of these albums , the subsequent demand was staggering ! |
| 4 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 5 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 6 | ‘ But it 's not decent to go to war over something like this , ’ I screamed , thumping my fist on the table so that the cups on the dresser rattled . |
| 7 | Forge my name on the back of the cheque and endorse it to yourself ? ’ |
| 8 | He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder . |
| 9 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 10 | I was told to enjoy my life on the dole and they slammed the phone down . ’ |
| 11 | The Boyfriends haunted my stay on the North Shore . |
| 12 | I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company . |
| 13 | I could with ease place my arm on the roof as I stood by one of them in the road . |
| 14 | The weather was unexpectedly hot , and had brought out a sudden rash of men leering from shop doorways and cars for a glimpse of female flesh , while Vonetta struggled to find my flat on the sprawling council estate where I live . |
| 15 | I fixed my attention on the tower of the library which the priest , Sauniere , had built on the edge of a precipice overlooking the distant village of Esperaza . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 17 | However , as the bitter winter weather approaches , I should like to concentrate my speech on the basic problem of enabling people to find shelter so that hon. Members do not again have to face the awful reality of stepping around people huddled under snow-covered tarpaulins , lying in shop doorways in the streets of our city . |
| 18 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 19 | I practiced my trade , I simplified my life , I was on my way to becoming the " Compleat Airman " , I also felt that I should get an overseas tour out of the way , and was quite pleased when I found my name on the PWR+ ; I then awaited eagerly to learn where . |
| 20 | I bumped my head on the door moving your mattress through the laundry , ’ said Tom . |
| 21 | The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin . |
| 22 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 23 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 24 | A reflective dream of my own occurred when I was in the midst of writing my doctorate on the role of REM sleep in consolidation of memories . |
| 25 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 26 | No I 'm gon na watch my wife on the hillside . |
| 27 | " The old bird we were chasing just put on an extra spurt , and I banged my chin on the ground so hard I though a tree had fallen on me ! " |
| 28 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 29 | I dribbled , I wet my pants , even banged my head on the furniture , and bawled … bawled almost nonstop . |
| 30 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |