Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 2 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I listened to what he said earlier and have since checked my speech . |
| 3 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 4 | After a while my mum 's new boyfriend moved in , and he eventually became my mum 's fiancé . |
| 5 | At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories . |
| 6 | By tea-time I was aware of walking strangely , and dared not run for the little beeps my botty made . |
| 7 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
| 8 | When I started on my mental journey ; the way seemed to be dark and impossible , yet I slowly found my way ; and so can everyone else . |
| 9 | So I reached for the senator 's hand , and thereby couched my lance to face the dragon 's fire . |
| 10 | In spite of this , one day the machine and the motor slid off the table and badly bruised my leg . |
| 11 | He was looking for somewhere to hide my iron . |
| 12 | My best friend just now will not necessarily stay my friend for ever , although it is possible . |
| 13 | To explain my curiosity I should perhaps explain my definition of excellence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 16 | The evening was now getting dark , but light enough to see my way . |
| 17 | just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ . |
| 18 | The Corporal stood and glared at me as I very swiftly made my exit through the door , pausing briefly to pick up my rucksack and bagpipe box . |
| 19 | I can only explain my reluctance , honestly , to the fact that up to now I was n't ready — the views expressed might be too ‘ militant ’ , lesbian-orientated and ‘ anarchist ’ for the type of feminism I was espousing . |
| 20 | I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was . |
| 21 | I have now resumed and read enough to assure my correspondent that he is lucky that his impatient reminder was directed at me and not at God , whose response to murmurings about the unforeseen delays in reaching the promised land was smiting with pestilence . |
| 22 | My mother had time on her hands so made my underwear . |
| 23 | with quiet so firm my mind can float on it |
| 24 | I could only make my exit . |
| 25 | I think I 'd be good at lecturing , especially given my aspect of appreciating . |
| 26 | December 7 , 1786 : I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan , and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin 's and Aberdeen Almanacks , along with the black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge . |
| 27 | I poured my heart , soul and a couple of vats from Nettles brewery into making it a cohesive , disciplined goal-scoring machine , only to see my dream sabotaged by soccer-illiterate shopkeepers and eleven Lego-legged , sloth-brained idiots in vaguely matching shorts . |
| 28 | I simply do n't get out much to enjoy my success . |
| 29 | When I remember the tears you shed I long to see you again and so make my happiness complete . |
| 30 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |