Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only proves my point . |
| 2 | But you see it only becomes my experience as I exercise the faith that God has given to me . |
| 3 | I do it only to augment my income . ’ |
| 4 | I see I could do it by degrees ; it only blistered my hand in two places . |
| 5 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 6 | It just crossed my mind another thing about this matrix here is you would n't bring a those two people would you ? |
| 7 | It just breaks my heart , honey , to think of your poor , dear cousin in such pain , ’ the other woman murmured sympathetically , her eyes glistening with tears as she begged Laura to sit down and make herself comfortable . |
| 8 | and it just slipped my mind . |
| 9 | I think they thought they were supporting me , by saying , ‘ You 'll be OK ! ’ , but really it just increased my anxiety . |
| 10 | are less bitter and more as if he is reasoning with the sun or with fate , saying ‘ If the sun can make a whole plant grown from a little seed , or even create life on a dead planet , why can it not arouse my friend ? ’ |
| 11 | In January also he had to speak at Pusey House in Oxford on " The Lambeth Conference and Education " , but one student 's disappointment at his performance on this occasion suggests the strain and lack of preparedness which were forced on him during this period : " In questions Mr Eliot was most feeble and hesitant , humming and hawing much and throwing back the questions with " Is that not what I said ? " or " Does it not prove my point ? " |
| 12 | It always awakens my fury . |
| 13 | In my case , this animal would have stood outside the House of Commons , chipping away at the chocolate with a microphone , while uttering the pregnant words , ‘ it always gets my vote ’ . |
| 14 | It also challenges my attitude to the more superficially respectable , whom we simply do not want to get on with , and strive earnestly to keep at arm 's length . |
| 15 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 16 | I think it probably affects my work subconsciously . |
| 17 | Yes , I do still keep a diary , though it now shows my hospital , doctor 's and dentist 's appointments rather than my business meetings or my target dates and such . |
| 18 | Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other . |
| 19 | ‘ It really breaks my heart to think of Simonica having to stay there . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to see how the police train the dogs and it really made my day , ’ she said . |
| 21 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyhow , I was so busy last year doing five things at once that it really did my head in . |
| 23 | I had one letter , written after he got back to Darvel , in which he spoke of how our parting had affected him : ‘ You seemed so big-eyed and pathetic when I left , that it fairly caught my heart ; that exit was the most difficult I 've ever made in my life . ’ |
| 24 | When I saw the advertisement for the secondment , it immediately captured my interest for a whole host of reasons . |
| 25 | It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish . |
| 26 | It simply gave my study another dimension . |
| 27 | ‘ It quite affects my head . ’ |
| 28 | I forwarded that letter to the Department of Employment and got the unsatisfactory answer that it fully understood my constituent 's position and his reluctance to consider a bank loan at this time , but was ’ sorry in this instance not to be able to offer an alternative suggestion . ’ |
| 29 | I got it principally to tow my trailer about but it can hardly get itself along . |
| 30 | It briefly attracted my attention , but I soon returned to the more intellectual business of marking exam scripts . |