Example sentences of "[vb past] it my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 2 | But you must believe that I kept you here not because I wanted to , but because I believed it my duty to those whom God ( or , well , the Company anyway ) has placed in my care . |
| 3 | The cave at the back of my tent was a good place to keep my food , and so I called it my ‘ kitchen ’ . |
| 4 | I , however , saw it my own way . |
| 5 | It was my choice and nothing was going to get in my way , dad finally saw it my way . |
| 6 | I was glad somebody else saw it my way . |
| 7 | I went on , telling him how pitiful her situation was , if he would only go and see he would understand , and how I felt it my duty to do what I could , working myself up into a noble sweat of righteousness . |
| 8 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 9 | ‘ However , young or not , I felt it my duty to see you and explain . ’ |
| 10 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 11 | John Hill had queried Miller 's description and had published his views in Eden , or a Complete Body of Gardening ( 1759 ) and Justice retaliated in his British Gardener 's Calendar ( 1759 ) : ‘ I thought it my indispensable duty to give Mr. Miller his due , both from a love of truth and from a sense of gratitude to him for his public labours , as well as private friendship . ’ |
| 12 | And , since all the evidence pointed to your having gone completely berserk , I thought it my duty as your host to ask one or two questions . |
| 13 | I made it my practice , not without some official misgivings , to work through the chairmen of the regional boards as a collective body , behaving , though they were my appointees , as no more than their primus inter pares . |
| 14 | Mum could n't read anyway but she always seemed to know when Auntie Nellie wrote and Dad made it my job to hide these letters and give them to him when Mum was out of the way . |
| 15 | I made it my business to get him off . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I made it my business to enquire just how serious your alleged relationship was . |
| 17 | ‘ I did it my way ! |
| 18 | I 'd like to say I did it my way . |
| 19 | but I did n't , I did it my pyrex bowl |
| 20 | ‘ I gave it my best shot . ’ |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I considered it my duty to get informed about politics because I had a vote . |