Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But so are you , ’ I protested , really astonished because he had been so reasonable about my activities up to now . |
| 2 | I forget how it was that I told Maurice Reckitt about it before Eliot , who usually received prior intelligence about my activities in this sphere . |
| 3 | ‘ You would n't think that a young man once wrote a poem about my ankles . |
| 4 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 5 | The article said nothing about my answers to these critics , and nothing about the content of my actual talk at Wellesley College . |
| 6 | But I 've become scruffier and scruffier , and although I do keep myself immaculately clean , I ca n't be bothered about my clothes any more . |
| 7 | I do n't care about my clothes — I do n't care about the money — I can steal some if I have to . |
| 8 | She has go to bad that I worry about my fingers when I carry out water changes . |
| 9 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 10 | Even my dad , he makes sexist remarks to me about my looks . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was growing up , I never thought about my looks and I never seem to get used to talking about my features . |
| 12 | I 've heard people say disparaging things about my looks — a narrowness of shoulder , thinness of face , pointedness of nose . |
| 13 | But I do n't care about my looks because you are not here . |
| 14 | ‘ All you 've done , Dr Vaughan , should you be interested , is wreck my self-confidence and give me an inferiority complex about my looks . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Up to now ’ , Miss Honey went on , ‘ I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems . |
| 16 | Before I was dependent on drugs , then I was dependent on people hugging me and talking about my problems . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not the kind of person that talks about my problems — I 'd rather sort them out myself . |
| 18 | WELL ENOUGH ABOUT MY PROBLEMS , WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU ? |
| 19 | Dashed rude about my roses , I may say . |
| 20 | I feel comfortable about my periods , not embarrassed . |
| 21 | ‘ Talk about my X-rays ? |
| 22 | Even with the warning shots of ‘ wanting to talk about my X-rays ’ , I was stunned . |
| 23 | What does this show about my interests ? |
| 24 | And I was asked about my interests , and naturally I began to talk about politics . |
| 25 | ‘ And I 'll tell you about my dresses . |
| 26 | I attribute it to frequent and energetic sex , to our not having children , to my habit of deferring to him , and lying about my actions , my whereabouts , my politics , my emotions and my orgasms . |
| 27 | I will not go into details about my adventures and shameful acts as Hyde . |
| 28 | ‘ I used to get down about my injuries , but I shared digs with Alan for two years and he always kept me going . |
| 29 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Then we had an inquiry from Fiji and our vice-chairman told me to reply and ask about my friends . |