Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [adv prt] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I took off my wedding dress and veil . |
| 2 | Instinctively I take off my shoes and feel the springy grass beneath my bare feet . |
| 3 | Or perhaps I took up my Arabic textbook . |
| 4 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
| 5 | So I took off my spacesuit . |
| 6 | So I made up my stories . |
| 7 | and I went who 's applying to go on to university or education after eighteen , so I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went oh god , they 're gon na do really well and Terry , and Terry , we 're talking Terry , Terry who has n't got a brain cell to rub together |
| 8 | So I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went , oh God ! |
| 9 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 10 | So I pulled out my SG , and not plugged into anything or making any pretence towards collecting money , started to exercise my fingers scale-wise . |
| 11 | So I lined up my archers on a hill of my own flesh , dressed them all in white , blancoed their arrows and set them off . |
| 12 | I could see Quigley was about to make another move , but before he could do so I held out my hands , palm downwards , in a gesture much favoured by Mr Toombs in his last ecclesiastical campaign . |
| 13 | So I gave up my quest . |
| 14 | So I plucked up my courage and tapped gently on the door . |
| 15 | off Dracula so I propped up my daub |
| 16 | Around four o'clock I packed up my books and went into my house to wash and change . |
| 17 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 18 | One Queens district resident said : ‘ Yesterday I looked out my window and I saw a guy doing the back stroke down my block . |
| 19 | Involuntarily I reach out my arm . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , you are ; and now let me tell you something : years ago I made up my mind never to marry a woman older than myself . |
| 21 | Then I take back my Daily Telegraph , fold it to hide his envelope , and return the paper to my pocket . |
| 22 | Finished it all , and then , I just decided then I sorted out my washing , and then I decided what part I was gon na do , I 'd narrowed it down to either topic , task or topic erm , stable features , which are , sort of , erm , self confidence and things , and erm , how you you express yourself , and then a third one is like sex an and gender and age . |
| 23 | Then I took off my little gold earrings and felt in the folds of my dress for all the money I 'd saved or stolen from my brother 's pockets over the years , and placed both the money and earrings in the palm of her hand , forcing her fingers shut around them . |
| 24 | Then I rolled up my things in a blanket and went out and had something to eat . |
| 25 | Then I got back my artillery , and the subdued Jackson drove me back to town . |
| 26 | So after that visit to Bristol , when I went to my little chapel on that bald knoll , I first called up the white healing ball and rolled it around every part of my anatomy , then I called up my archers and let them shine the beams of their torches down onto the spot in my lung . |
| 27 | Then I picked up my things at the stationer 's and walked home , ignoring the distressing tugs of the magnetic field , which made me feel I 'd wasted my morning by not doing the thing I 'd set out to do . |
| 28 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 29 | Sometimes I get out my violin and we all three play some music together , which is a kind of combination of work and conversation — it has all the tense absorption of the one , and all the anxiety to reach the end , together with all the wordless companionability of the other . |
| 30 | I see myself as one of these animals , and I await with resignation but with confidence the moment when either I live out my life as providence decrees or I die as prescribed , convinced that I shall thus be useful in two ways , first to France and then to humanity . |