Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [verb] [verb] my " in BNC.

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1 No darling , I ca n't stay to tea cos I 've left my windows open and poor old Vino ai n't been fed .
2 I have heard there 's good sport to be had in Buttermere and Grasmere and I intend to make my way to one or the other for a few days .
3 Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater .
4 I would , if I 'd got a fast car and I 'd lost my dreams .
5 I 'd blacked my eyebrows till they were like tarmac , I 'd put raspberry-coloured gloss thick on my lips and I 'd done my eyelids in a limey shade of green .
6 Just six weeks till the end of term because I 've got my books for six weeks and they 've used , date stamped in them is the last day of term ca n't be bad can it ?
7 Three months after I 'd submitted my profile he sold out to INCUBUS .
8 But then I return to the knifeblade , flexing gently under my weight as I try to shift my centre of gravity as far as possible over my feet to protect the belay .
9 We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky .
10 Bless him , he went away with the promise of a full sitting when I 'd got my face back from the cleaners .
11 Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him .
12 Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight .
13 Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything .
14 ‘ There was a scene where I wanted to keep my clothes on and I told Adrian ‘ They do n't have to see my breasts in every shot , do they ? ’
15 But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night .
16 My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology .
17 We will both retire around May and I hope to spend my free time on my hobby , photography . ’
18 So I 've spent my recent years sort of learning about movements , about emerging feminisms in other countries and I suppose contributed my bit in imparting that information .
19 I do not know who is meeting Le Pen and I have made my views clear .
20 You had to force your way through the flow of MPs to get to the No lobby and I had to force my way through to get to the No lobby .
21 Looking forward to the circus , but could I ask you not to throw me to the lions until I 've got my accounts in order ?
22 Cedric had n't changed a bit and I had to battle my way to the broken armchair by the fireside .
23 ‘ It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up .
24 The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away .
25 Cos I 'm now a competent driver cos I 've passed my test .
26 My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so .
27 She wants to confuse me , undermine my confidence so I begin to doubt my own sanity .
28 It was the first time in years that I had blown my top in such a way , and I vowed that it would never happen again , that I would save all my aggression for the track .
29 ‘ My wife and I are both from Yorkshire and I have spent my whole career up in the north . ’
30 So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other .
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