Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] on my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized , thinking about it afterwards , that they were the numbers of the various different bus-routes I used on my way to school , together with the relevant extracts from their timetables . |
| 2 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 3 | ‘ Only from the business card I found on my desk , ’ the other replied , his English excellent . |
| 4 | He was quite different from the stringy little animals I saw on my daily round . |
| 5 | By the time we had reached Skala Maries and turned inland , I had mastered the gear changes sufficiently for Beth to relax the vice-like grip she had on my waist and enjoy the scenery . |
| 6 | He picked me up and clear of the beer keg so that the flex holding my legs came off clear hut it stayed on my ankles , acting as a hobble . |
| 7 | ‘ D'yer know , Carrie , yer 've really changed from the little miss who knocked on my front door that evenin' . |
| 8 | What I did not realise then — but what I would discover the moment I embarked on my journey to those front doors — was that I had touched upon the essence of the Arab–Israeli war ; that while the existence of the Palestinians and their demand for a nation lay at the heart of the Middle East crisis , it was the contradiction inherent in the claims to ownership of the land of Palestine — the ‘ homeland ’ of the Jews in Balfour 's declaration — which generated the anger and fear of both Palestinians and Israelis . |
| 9 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 10 | I pile the CDs on top of the tapes which balance on my redundant vinyl collection that 's heaped on top of the ancient 78s I 've had for years . ’ |
| 11 | With the advent of punk music in 1977 I transferred my energies and enthusiasm from the military and spent a lot of time dressing up and putting Vaseline in my hair , much to the annoyance of my house master , a quiet Benedictine who wrote on my term report , ‘ Christian seems to have developed a nihilistic attraction for punk rock , which is strange for somebody who avoids violence even on the rugby field . |
| 12 | All this livelong day I lay on my favourite rock in the sun . |
| 13 | After I have seen my wife I continue on my way to find : |
| 14 | The above quotations are part of a large batch of letters forwarded from the BBC which arrived on my mat ten days after the programme went out . |
| 15 | The only thing that surprised me after our painful , taciturn lunch was the astonishing enthusiasm and goodwill he displayed on my departure . |
| 16 | Before our friend had finished telling us his news I got on my bicycle and rode to the cemetery as fast as I could . |
| 17 | in the arrangement I had on my birthday . |
| 18 | And this morning she jumped on my neck and I was sleeping and I woke up , you know what she does while she 's doing it ? |
| 19 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 20 | I was always impressed by the quality of the students ' preparation for the lessons I observed on my weekly visits to them and by their willing capacity to learn by their mistakes . |
| 21 | Thanks for a great mag , which is the first thing I grab on my trips home , being a subscriber ! |
| 22 | The last thing I wanted on my mind was my daughter being taken into care . |
| 23 | The information I had on my own troops was also of a general , somewhat amateurish nature , but I did know that , put in its simplest form , my immune system was a collection of several kinds of cells designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies . |
| 24 | From the book I held on my lap ! |
| 25 | I was drunk as a pig and insisted on stamping on every bloody spider I found on my way back to our chamber . |
| 26 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 27 | That was the year I went on my first diet . |
| 28 | A month later , as the conventional headmaster of a county grammar school I put on my gown and hood to play the appointed part in the annual school prize-giving . |
| 29 | The England manager said : ‘ The turnip thing has even started to appear on the envelopes of the personal letters which drop on my doormat . |