Example sentences of "it my " in BNC.

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1 You will see it my way .
2 ‘ I make it my business to know such things , young man . ’
3 The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way .
4 ‘ A little store room — I call it my broom cupboard .
5 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 .
6 ‘ But I would hate to get to 40 and look back , thinking : ‘ I wish I 'd given it my best shot ’ . ’
7 Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist .
8 I call it my bird tree . ’
9 ‘ My aspirations were then as they are now to make it my business to make clothes .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 There is a display of juggling ; there is Paddy , the Caring Ventriloquist ( ’ He lets the dummy have a say ’ ) and there is one big Paddy Ashdown song to close the show — ‘ Do It My Way ’ .
12 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 . ’
13 In November of each year the Nail is brought to the floor of the cathedral so it my be seen by the faithful .
14 But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot .
15 ‘ I consider it my duty to strive to ward off the calamity by bringing about the union of Palestine and Transjordan ’ , he told the Palestinians .
16 I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house .
17 I watched it done before , once , as a student , and it turned my stomach , and it was very distressing to me , and in the end Carrington was going to die , and he did die , but I asked him if he would do it my way .
18 ‘ That 's a promise call it my thank-you promise to you .
19 I was already giving it my support with diet and positive thinking ; now I would add an overwhelming direct frontal assault with thorough , serious visualization .
20 I feel it my duty to disclaim any such intention .
21 Ask yourself the question , ‘ Is it my desire , my greed , my wish to be in control that drives me in this matter , or do I feel the lightness of purpose that is a mark of the guidance from within ? ’
22 Is it my imagination or does the tranquil state of mind the car encourages contribute to these things ?
23 ‘ What is it my Lord ? ’ courtiers had asked .
24 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 …
25 ‘ I 'm afraid a quarter of a million pounds sterling paid out on your mother 's life makes it my business . ’
26 ‘ I wish … that is , I feel it my duty … no , no , my desire and my duty to join their Society , but Miss Jarman wo n't countenance it . ’
27 ‘ If I must collect their newspaper , I 'll do it my own way ’
28 ‘ I did it my way !
29 The problem is , they 've got this parametric EQ and when I first toured with it my guitar roadie could n't figure what was wrong , because it was cutting out and crackling .
30 ‘ With Chet or any other people I play with , I just steal a lick or two and use it my own way .
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