Example sentences of "[that] i [adv] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Please say that I finally look my age at least ! ’ |
2 | Other special Air Force camps were built in different parts of Germany and it was in these that I eventually spent my rime as a prisoner . |
3 | ‘ You know that I nearly broke my word to you about drinking just now , McAllister . ’ |
4 | Then I whirled , so quickly that I nearly ricked my neck , as I caught a movement at the edge of my vision . |
5 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
6 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
7 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
8 | You know that I always keep my word . ’ |
9 | I must say that I really enjoyed my time in the RAF and I 'm convinced that for National Serviceman , the Air Gunner 's trade was the best way to complete the compulsory Armed Service requirement of the time . |
10 | I make sure that I really condition my hair and that 's about it . |
11 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
12 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |