Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd happily part with my money just to hear the sensational Philadelphia/Ormandy Rachmaninov Vocalise ( ‘ Never mind the meal , just turn down the lights ! ’ ) . |
| 2 | Tyminski announced on Oct. 4 that he would be returning to Canada , because " I do not want my presence here to create the appearance of honesty in these elections " . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't worry , I 'll do my level best to find something more appropriate . ’ |
| 4 | Partly for Clare 's sake , but mostly for my own satisfaction , I decided to do my level best to break that man . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , you are ; and now let me tell you something : years ago I made up my mind never to marry a woman older than myself . |
| 6 | Now it is not my intention here to criticise any particular type of food or the individual who wishes to consume it . |
| 7 | It is not my intention here to question the usefulness of the concept of physical space-time , or any other concept of physics , for that matter . |
| 8 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 9 | As I indicated , colleagues , it 's my intention now to go round the regions and ask regions whether they wish to put a speaker in . |
| 10 | It is my intention then to deliver them to you the following day , Friday 5 March , probably sometime before midday . |
| 11 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 12 | It was my practice never to record anything , especially conversations , after three days … it is surprising how efficient one 's memory can become with practice . ’ |
| 13 | The results of this tour , so far as the ladies of the party were concerned , tended to confirm all my previous impressions of their valour and vigour , and also to the strengthening of my determination never to undertake or propose any arrangement from which the ladies must of course be excluded . |
| 14 | without asking , it comes up on the er have er , I 'll ask her first hello it 's the G P G engineer love , yeah , er my pager 's just gone off , is it okay to use my telephone just to answer it please ? |
| 15 | Sometimes the grown-ups say ‘ well , look , this is just not the type of thing I want my child even to know about . |
| 16 | as you say like there 's something funny about cats cos I opened my wardrobe yesterday to get a coat out . |
| 17 | ‘ It is my business always to make notices . |
| 18 | It would have been my job anyway to make as little as possible of it , but it certainly was n't difficult to do because nobody seemed that bothered , ’ he says . |
| 19 | why was it my job always to go in pick them up and . |
| 20 | just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again |
| 21 | I blink my eyes for some inkling of orientation , but the high-pitched multi-signals whine and cascade about in my head just to make things quite clear that they 're not going to be harassed into full-powered service tonight . |
| 22 | ‘ You have a lovely daughter , ’ I said , shaking my head slightly to stop raindrops running into my eyes . |
| 23 | I have to bend my head forward to squeeze in . |
| 24 | I turn my head sideways to see how I look with my ears showing , but I ca n't see proper . |
| 25 | Shortly after the start I had problems with Gerhard 's oil all over my visor , so I just drove my taxi home to take third place . ’ |
| 26 | Thus , it is not my object here to provide some heretofore unrevealed final " true reading " of this text , but rather to understand its discursive organization as a specific set of responses to concrete historical pressures . |
| 27 | I am very careful in my advice never to say ‘ never ’ . |
| 28 | I have to sign my life away to get these yellow forms . |
| 29 | So I walked away , breaking my journey home to leave the key with the solicitors . |
| 30 | ‘ I have to use my pension just to pay for food but it 's not enough to cover the bills or if you need a new coat or linen . |