Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that if I never tried it on my own , I would always wonder whether I could . ’ |
| 2 | I found it in my old snap album . |
| 3 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
| 4 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 5 | I claimed it for my own . ’ |
| 6 | In the ceremony I smeared the metal , rubber and plastic of the new device with earwax , snot , blood , urine , belly-button fluff and toenail cheese , christened it by firing the empty sling at a wingless wasp crawling on the face of the Factory , and also fired it at my bared foot , raising a bruise . |
| 7 | Made a funnel of the waxed paper , and tipped it into my wide-open mouth . |
| 8 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 9 | But there was another deeper factor that endeared me to that little derelict church at Knowlton and slotted it into my spiritual pattern even tighter than my fictional one . |
| 10 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 11 | Then I made a fist-sized roll of the rest and shoved it into my deepest pocket . |
| 12 | It is the lint and fluff on my old winter coat , stuck to the sleeves like dead bugs , and it is the same old towel hanging from the rack in my bathroom , stiff with decay but still pink , still the shape it was over a year ago , the last time I used it , the last time I shoved it across my stubborn wet flesh and up between my legs and rough through my tangle of sopping hair , the same hair , the same hair . |
| 13 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw it with my own two eyes . |
| 15 | I felt it on my own … ’ |
| 16 | I felt it during my last year at Ladymont . |
| 17 | As predicted , the small lumps vanished , the gland remained — unchanged — and after a few weeks , I grew accustomed to the feel of it and forgot it until Dr Dingle rediscovered it during my 1988 medical . |
| 18 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 19 | I got it for my eighteenth you see . |
| 20 | " No , I got it by my own self . " |
| 21 | My dear wife , Lucy , bought me a special phone-attachment — bought it for my last birthday , bless her heart . ’ |
| 22 | I bought it with my conservation hat on , and think it is well worth doing . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I bought it with my own money . ’ |
| 24 | I LEARNED it from my elder sister , the Indian scout of my life . |
| 25 | I did it on my own . |
| 26 | ( I got a bent line if I did it on my own , but here was one to follow . ) |
| 27 | He did it for my own good . |
| 28 | Folding the lids of the box together , I hoisted it under my left arm and carried it to the Fire Exit . |
| 29 | Frank usually left it outside my flat door on his way back from his morning jog . |
| 30 | I held it between my own , uncovered it to see the fingers lying on mine : a square hand , fine-boned , fine-textured , not large . |