Example sentences of "my [noun] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 2 | Will you commute or should I move my base down to London ? ’ |
| 3 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 4 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 5 | In the soft evening light , I retraced my steps back to town , soothed by the songs of blackbirds and chaffinches . |
| 6 | My thanks also to Sandra Burslem and Sue Thorne who kindly lent me their word processor . |
| 7 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 8 | Can I pass all my correspondence on to members of |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such training and preparation brought both me and my marriage almost to breaking-point . |
| 11 | When I die , I want you to take my body back to Windsor . |
| 12 | I took my dreams down to breakfast : I 'd scribble while eating , like an Inspector from the Good Bed-and-Breakfast Guide . |
| 13 | I 'll take my wife home to Bamburgh , Hal , and go north to Berwick myself for part of the summer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I think I might take my flute back to school as well . |
| 16 | I was afraid I might lose my train back to Dublin . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't have all my staff out to lunch at the same time . ’ |
| 18 | I was driven by my father down to Orpington , Kent — a suburb of London — on Sunday evening , the day before I was due to start my experience . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So my road back to Wigan Pier started in a refuge for battered women , mostly mothers . |
| 22 | 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 ? ; - ) ) |
| 23 | Even today I remember my stupefaction close to terror . |
| 24 | It was not badly damaged , and it was exciting to be able to start planning my journey back to England and my home . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It looks so sad there , all cold and lonely , that I hold my hand out to sort of stroke it , but it flies off . |
| 28 | It politely requested that , for security reasons , I bring my ship down to Underlight speed at specific co-ordinates , at a specific time , and prepare for rendezvous with the Emissary 's ship . |
| 29 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ I hold my hands up to England . |
| 30 | Better bring my book up to date . |