Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 2 | So I reached for the senator 's hand , and thereby couched my lance to face the dragon 's fire . |
| 3 | I ask you , Mr. Speaker , to grant my request to allow the House to consider this serious matter . |
| 4 | I am disappointed that my right hon. Friend was not able to accept my invitation to attend the concert of the Royal Choral Society on a European theme at the Festival hall on 7 March , particularly as I hope to take part in it . |
| 5 | Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire . |
| 6 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 7 | ‘ And you truly do need my help to locate the ephemeral Svend — not to mention your sister . ’ |
| 8 | This is consistent with the evidence of the husband in cross-examination : ‘ [ Mr. Bunn ] told me he would need my wife to sign the charge too . ’ |
| 9 | I used my wealth to fund the building of a crypt at Glastonbury . |
| 10 | ‘ I sha n't expect my wife to travel the world with me , so that 's where you 'll stay . |
| 11 | Do I appreciate that I have to lead my group to see the story as symbol ? |
| 12 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd like my mother to do the same . ’ |
| 14 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 15 | I rushed outside , looked up and opened my mouth to let the flakes drop in . |
| 16 | Walter had me into his panelled wankpit of an office , classified my request to change the name on my cheques from N.O. Russell to Oliver Russell as not central to the Bank 's policy for the 1980s , and reminded me that unless funds were forthcoming to camouflage my black hole of an overdraft I would n't be getting a new cheque-book even if I called myself Santa Claus . |
| 17 | I shook my head to dispel the feeling of unreality . |
| 18 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 19 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 20 | I then started to put my foot to get the next rung down . |
| 21 | A few days earlier I had been thinking of calling my doctor to assess the chances of having my vasectomy reversed in order to save my marriage to Karen . |
| 22 | Like Epictetus , I can set my sentry to challenge the thoughts as they arise . |
| 23 | It has , incidentally , materially diminished my capacity to enjoy the original symphony . |
| 24 | I craned my neck to examine the contents of her hand . |
| 25 | ‘ And my dad might cut my hair to match the others . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Sorry , Angus , ’ he was saying , ‘ my lad from Ballinluig never turned up , I had to get my father to blow the bellows — ouch ! some of them are still hot — that bag has charred , spread them out to cool , or keep them for tomorrow . |
| 27 | But he 's got to strip the bonnet so Dave said well I 'll get my lad to strip the bonnet this afternoon and er you know , few hundred quid for the day we 'll be glad to be able to finish off doing them and He 's got too many |
| 28 | Moreover , it was I who wet my finger to test the wind and pointed out that , even if he wanted to leave the game , it would be no use . |
| 29 | Three years passed , and I had not lost my ambition to become the headmaster of a grammar school . |
| 30 | They persuaded Mr Charles to accompany them , and since the chauffeur was on leave at that point , enlisted my father to drive the car . |