Example sentences of "[vb past] my [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the time I got my boots on it would all be over , ’ he told Margery . |
| 2 | The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris . |
| 3 | ‘ I made my feelings on that subject clear , Khan . ’ |
| 4 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |
| 5 | That is why I cherish the work of Messrs David Alford and Ted Hynds of the People , who condensed my musings on the subject of my nasal ingestion of the powdered and refined fruits of the coca leaf into the terse , pithy and intriguingly erect motto , ‘ Cocaine And Me , By Funny Man Fry . ’ |
| 6 | I trained my binoculars on the reeds closest to the hide ; an up-and-down bobbing movement had caught my eye . |
| 7 | I sang quite loudly to rise above the noise of the cars , and fixed my eyes on Anna , walking among the tables with her straw hat ready for coins . |
| 8 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 9 | I drummed my fingers on the desktop . |
| 10 | I expected to hate it , but in fact I enjoyed my lectures on English language history and became an enthusiastic advocate of exercises in parsing , syntax and dictation — the very best test of listening comprehension . |
| 11 | Now that my wages were no longer required to subsidise the café , I scrimped and saved and redoubled my efforts on the clubs , saving the money for furniture and carpets . |
| 12 | I decided to see what would happen if I pressed my lips against the microphone and placed my hands on the stool . |
| 13 | — I blistered my thumbs on it — ’ |
| 14 | In a sane world , I thought , we would have discussed the state of my feelings , debated whether I loved Syl sufficiently to commit the rest of my life to him , questioned my views on the institution of marriage , examined my mother 's motives in striving to introduce me into this state , have said something of some interest . |
| 15 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 16 | I rubbed my hands on the rough blue of my trousers . |
| 17 | As ever , Mary made sure I kept my feet on the ground . |
| 18 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 19 | I chose a spot well away from the wasp-infested rubbish bins and kept my eyes on my book when the shadow of a man cast over it . |
| 20 | An all-nighter was a triumph of will and my eyelids were already dropping , but I kept my eyes on the thin figure . |
| 21 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 22 | I kept my eyes on the dressing as Mrs Scutt produced photos . |
| 23 | and kept my eyes on psalters and hymn-books . |
| 24 | I kept my eyes on the screen . |
| 25 | I kept my eyes on the screen . |
| 26 | I kept my eyes on his face . |
| 27 | He heard Amaranth say , ‘ If I lay my hands on the plans , David , I wo n't let you have them . |
| 28 | I went back to the cabin , put my shoes on again , and picked up a bottle of wine . |
| 29 | I was too anxious — far too anxious — and this put my interviewers on their guard . |
| 30 | It was n't the bomb in John Lewis that put my nerves on edge this year , even though I felt the echoing shudder of it . |