Example sentences of "my [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the soft evening light , I retraced my steps back to town , soothed by the songs of blackbirds and chaffinches . |
| 2 | And if , when I turn my Mac on to upload this article , you hear James Brown screaming : ‘ Fellas , I 'm ready to get up an ’ do MAH thang ! ’ do n't fret . |
| 3 | Such training and preparation brought both me and my marriage almost to breaking-point . |
| 4 | I took my dreams down to breakfast : I 'd scribble while eating , like an Inspector from the Good Bed-and-Breakfast Guide . |
| 5 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 6 | I think I might take my flute back to school as well . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't have all my staff out to lunch at the same time . ’ |
| 8 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
| 9 | In your handout , somewhere , I 'm afraid I have n't got the pages er , cos I do n't have my handout immediately to hand , er I 've got here a short-term er programme . |
| 10 | if i can use a div 1 player ( bohinen , forest — tech wonder boy with amazing goals and great moves as a speciality — scored the most memorable goal of my life up to date against italy when we beat them at home 2–1 in the EC qual game on june 5th 1991 — world class defender baresi was on his way to the corner flag — outclassed by a bohinen move — when bohinen put the ball under Walter Zenga — i attended the game and had the perfect seat for that goal — hmm — i got a little carried away here , ehh ? ; - ) ) |
| 11 | Even today I remember my stupefaction close to terror . |
| 12 | I watched the clock ticking away as I approached , and when I passed through the finish line I held my arms up to heaven and with my eyes closed said ‘ Thank you god . |
| 13 | But apparently people insisted that one stand up to do one 's piece , and I — successfully acclimatised to the horizontal by this time — refused to pander to this sort of nit-picking , and so passed my turn on to Cousin Josh with as much good grace as I could muster . |
| 14 | It looks so sad there , all cold and lonely , that I hold my hand out to sort of stroke it , but it flies off . |
| 15 | Better bring my book up to date . |
| 16 | I finished the section I had been writing — an idea left in mid-paragraph tends to vanish very quickly — then took myself and my candle early to bed . |
| 17 | I 've had to turn half of one of my clerks over to fee earning work . |
| 18 | I 'm on my way up to town . |
| 19 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 20 | I was one of the first to leave , making my way back to Number 11 unobserved . |
| 21 | On my way back to Sunset I stopped at the press trailer . |
| 22 | As I clambered out of the trench and made my way across to Brigade H.Q I could see the jeep with the stretchers on top waiting at the entrance to the orchard . |
| 23 | And then I 'd be wearing my cap back to front for a day or so . |
| 24 | Line of washing ( linked to seven — Heaven ) : A washing line of angels ' white dresses stretching from my house up to Heaven ; |
| 25 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |