Example sentences of "my [noun] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 2 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 3 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 4 | yeah it 's good if he caddies for me cos if he 's playing by shot he goes , ee crap , bastard , so I think fuck you and er stiff my necks on to it |
| 5 | I put my pyjamas on underneath my clothes and thus protected went for a walk round Pau . |
| 6 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 7 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 8 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 9 | we used to have my light on in this archway , yeah . |
| 10 | Can I pass all my correspondence on to members of |
| 11 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 12 | And if , when I turn my Mac on to upload this article , you hear James Brown screaming : ‘ Fellas , I 'm ready to get up an ’ do MAH thang ! ’ do n't fret . |
| 13 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 14 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 15 | But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience . |
| 16 | ‘ Now I 've got five stitches and there 's a one-inch larva covered in spines preserved in a jar with my name on in the hospital . |
| 17 | Do I need my glasses on for this book ? |
| 18 | Big men came , and loaded all my stuff on to their pick-up . |
| 19 | I turned from my contemplation of the inclement evening and eased my buttocks on to the warm radiator beneath the window . |
| 20 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |
| 21 | I sent my luggage on by train and after lunch , I started out on foot . |
| 22 | But apparently people insisted that one stand up to do one 's piece , and I — successfully acclimatised to the horizontal by this time — refused to pander to this sort of nit-picking , and so passed my turn on to Cousin Josh with as much good grace as I could muster . |
| 23 | And er she said , I I have occasional requests , I 'm full at the moment , erm would you mind if I passed some of my enquiries on to you as and when they occur . |
| 24 | If I have addressed this to the wrong department I 'd be grateful if you would pass my letter on to the appropriate person . |
| 25 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 26 | Sid Field asked whether dead ones were accepted and John Stanley sent in a Bob Dylan song , saying he was the only ‘ modern whose lyrics I coul get my hands on without going back to the Bard , and I thought that was n't what you wanted ’ . |
| 27 | And from Quotable Women : ‘ I 'll read almost anything I can get my hands on from women 's magazines to Dickens . |
| 28 | I leave my heating on during the night because I do n't want to get up in a cold flat but people I know try to save their money by living in the cold . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll get my dad on to that brother of mine . |
| 30 | I chose a large irregular lump of spalted walnut and directly drafted my idea on to the timber with a paint brush and some white paint . |