Example sentences of "make it my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have made it my business to go after lost Leonardos now , ’ says Dr Pedretti , who worked closely with Kenneth Clark and took over his mantle as the world 's leading Leonardo expert . |
| 2 | I 've made it my business to . |
| 3 | He is trapped there and I have made it my promise , Tallis 's Promise , to release him . |
| 4 | Oh , I 'm not complaining — I 've always made it my business to ensure that the women I meet are the sort who understand the rules and know how to play the game . |
| 5 | You attempt to go near her again and I 'll make it my business to go across there … ’ |
| 6 | " You keep your hands off her , Mr Gristy , or you 'll make it my business , an " all . " |
| 7 | I 'd be failing in my duty if I did n't make it my business to know who she 's consorting with . ’ |
| 8 | And I 'll make it my practice in future to call here unannounced . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't make it my business to hire fools , Miss Emerson . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I made it my business to get him off . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I made it my business to enquire just how serious your alleged relationship was . |
| 14 | ‘ I make it my business to know such things , young man . ’ |
| 15 | I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house . |
| 16 | I 've got to decide what I 'm going to say to Mum and Dad — I 've got to picture them , feel what they always make me feel like and somehow change it … speak to them like speaking to a dream , make it my dream instead of their dream … |
| 17 | You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart . |
| 18 | ‘ I make it my business to be happy , ’ said Lili . |
| 19 | interior and make it my own ? |
| 20 | But while it may be appealing to the British public , I 'm not making it my life 's work to get it together . |
| 21 | But , desperately uncertain about my future employment , I was very soon making it my urgent business to find out . |
| 22 | ‘ Just so he does n't find that 's a lie , how about making it my secretary , Miss Hinkle ? ’ |
| 23 | I know what 's going on , I do n't like it , and I 'm making it my business to see that it stops . " |
| 24 | ‘ Not really , but I 'm making it my business . ’ |
| 25 | I have a great number of new and interesting species to make known etc. but have an idea of making it my next illustrative work . |
| 26 | ‘ My aspirations were then as they are now to make it my business to make clothes . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , I am ; and I 'm going to make it my home . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm afraid a quarter of a million pounds sterling paid out on your mother 's life makes it my business . ’ |