Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [prep] my [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity for myself , for the dislocation of my words , of the edifice carefully constructed to bury pain . |
| 2 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 3 | I recently set up a new tank , and used a large piece of bogwood , for the benefit of my plecs . |
| 4 | This meant I had to get hay from the top barn for the rest of my cattle , which were still outside . |
| 5 | I would be ‘ sent to Coventry ’ ; and be considered as a coward for the rest of my school-days . |
| 6 | THEY WILL INFLUENCE ME FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS . |
| 7 | They will influence me for the rest of my days . |
| 8 | I 'll have to live with the notoriety for the rest of my days . |
| 9 | I do n't want to do housework for the rest of my days — working in other people 's houses — but I have to do it until something better comes along . ’ |
| 10 | What my Commander-in-Chief had to say to me is something that I will treasure for the rest of my days — and has only been shared with one other . |
| 11 | Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman has no ideas and is desperate for the advice of my officials . |
| 13 | For the sake of my parents , for the sake of their loved ones , for the sake of justice , and for the sake of a civilised society , please come forward to the police with your information . |
| 14 | I ca n't afford to fight this in the American courts and I genuinely fear for the safety of my children . ’ |
| 15 | I enjoyed this day , felt I had done something worthwhile and was grateful for the generosity of my sponsors who contributed to such worthy cause . |
| 16 | I am reminded of Letterman 's tennis because as I stroll through the grounds of the club , waiting for the arrival of my transcripts , I come upon a red earth tennis court . |
| 17 | It was impossible to get any indication since my instructions from the Foreign Office were to negotiate only with Mr Smith and his people and not to have any contact with the black population during the period of my negotiations . |
| 18 | When I was a teenager there were rows of a sort — mainly about the behaviour of my sisters — but during the whole of my childhood I can only remember one . |
| 19 | It is wiping sick from the carpet , worrying about the size of my thighs , being woken in the night by a crying baby and meeting my children from school that I want to remember , laugh at and celebrate . |
| 20 | While I was pregnant a young security guard used to enquire solicitously about the state of my ankles . |
| 21 | You are wrong about the accuracy of my copies . |
| 22 | After the jump , no doubt I might simply regret not having died , but only if it no longer matters to me how I die , only if I am past caring about the value of my acts . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , the first time we did the scene , the catch did n't unhook and I literally got dragged through the mud by my boobs . |
| 24 | I felt it through the seat of my pants , and grinned . |
| 25 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 26 | I 'll scribble Robina Marquis off the front of my dream-books and put Suzanne Brown next to the Strictly Private . |
| 27 | My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping . |
| 28 | My nightmare began after the birth of my children . |
| 29 | Anyhow the upshot is , one way or another I 'm lying in the front seat of the Boomerang with my trousers round my knees and copping a twenty-dollar blowjob from a speed-fuelled Zulu called Agnes . |
| 30 | Dead nonchalant , I leapt from the fence in one graceful bound to check the garden out : business must go on even in the face of the queen of my dreams . |