Example sentences of "with my [adj] [noun] " 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 | ‘ Oh , no , you ai n't , ’ I mutter , turning and twisting and thrusting with my right boot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I lifted his head gently with my right hand — and felt the hot , sticky blood covering the back of his skull . |
| 11 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I slide my knee to the side , grab his throat with my right hand , and squeeze . |
| 14 | I could n't hear anything with my right ear and my eye looked like a burst , over-ripe plum . |
| 15 | He places a tiny wire runner with effortless case , in comparison with my desperate finger-wrestling , rope-biting contortions . |
| 16 | I even walked to the hospital , rather than travelling in the car with my desperate parents , for the psychiatrist 's appointment which resulted in my ten-week enforced stay . |
| 17 | A chap just turned up with my lost golf clubs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They told me at the hospital that you 've worked with him in the past , so I thought you might be able to help me with my general enquiries . ’ |
| 21 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 22 | It 's deeply intimate with my terminal skin . |
| 23 | I turned up every so often , did what I could , with my limited resources . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Two : I am the founder of the Hochhauser Season , with my dear Franz of course , and am responsible for seeing that all continues well . |
| 28 | ‘ What walks with my dear wife and little ones ! |
| 29 | Ever since coming upon Rousseau 's writings so long ago , I have tried to live with my dear wife above the glaciers in the condition he would have approved , that of the Noble Savage — in defiance of those citified creatures who multiply in the valleys far below . |
| 30 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |