Example sentences of "with my [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard . |
2 | ‘ I was wearing a flak jacket with bulging pockets and over my shoulder was carrying a bag with my long lens in it — it could have been a bazooka since no-one searched it . |
3 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
4 | As I walked back from the bar with my second pint I caught sight of Karen and Dennis at a table in the corner . |
5 | Let me develop that with my second illustration . |
6 | I tried eating a sandwich with my second cup of tea and I just about managed it . |
7 | I am constantly ‘ working ’ with my second rod while keeping a watchful eye on my other rod which is cast into the hotspot . |
8 | Erm well I tried for years to live with my second husband and it just was impossible ! |
9 | ‘ Oh , no , you ai n't , ’ I mutter , turning and twisting and thrusting with my right boot . |
10 | They had forgotten to tell the rest of my body about this and as a result I slumped out of Armstrong , hitting the road with my right shoulder , having just remembered in time not to break my fall with my hand . |
11 | Analysing his match-winning contribution he said : ‘ Prior to the match I tried a few shots from that same position with my right foot and missed . |
12 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |
13 | I always carry the bag on my left shoulder so I can pull out clubs with my right hand , and I was about to pull out the driver when I hesitated and decided to see how the land lay . |
14 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
15 | I hold the rod parallel to the ground over my right shoulder , with the butt pointing at the target , glance at my rod-tip and tackle to make sure everything is free , then look at the target and keep my eye on it while I push with my right hand and pull with my left . |
16 | I lifted his head gently with my right hand — and felt the hot , sticky blood covering the back of his skull . |
17 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |
18 | And we 'd start I 'd just turn with my right hand to join both ends of the rope and then we would be turning again . |
19 | I slide my knee to the side , grab his throat with my right hand , and squeeze . |
20 | I could n't hear anything with my right ear and my eye looked like a burst , over-ripe plum . |
21 | He places a tiny wire runner with effortless case , in comparison with my desperate finger-wrestling , rope-biting contortions . |
22 | A chap just turned up with my lost golf clubs . |
23 | Occasionally he produced a camera and pointed it at me , as I played on the lawn with my limber chestnut friend , Katrina ( who would later drop out of high school and become a porno star in Paris ) , or at me alone , mainly alone . |
24 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
25 | It 's deeply intimate with my terminal skin . |
26 | Yeah , yes , I I sometimes have difficulty with my twelve year old daughter , |
27 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
28 | ‘ You do n't know what a pleasure it is to me , Pip , ’ he said once , ‘ to be with my dear boy , in the open air . ’ |
29 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
30 | ‘ What walks with my dear wife and little ones ! |