Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun sg] and [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm much more confident about my ability and I have learned a lot . |
| 2 | I make one remark about my life and it reverberates right through every else I do . |
| 3 | I dreamt about my nan and I woke up and I was crying . |
| 4 | ‘ I told my family about my plan and I told Greta , my wife . |
| 5 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |
| 6 | I spend a lot of time with a lot of girls , it 's my job , I do n't want one of them to run her fingers through my hair and it come away in in her hand you know that 's |
| 7 | that came in my head and all I wan na do if money you can to I wan na love you , for my heart and you make me a brand new woman , you make me ha , you wan na |
| 8 | Erm there are networks throughout the U K and Europe erm for my company and I have to make sure that er all the telecommunication systems are up and running . |
| 9 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |
| 10 | Continental Airlines became one of our sponsors , offering tickets for my husband and I to go to London and to come home from Australia . |
| 11 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 12 | I just wondered because we were in Winners once and it had some and he picked them up and he looked at them and he said I do n't think these are the right shape for my car and I know he needs some . |
| 13 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 14 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 15 | I did n't want to lose any of my squad and it makes my job a little bit easier this summer . ’ |
| 16 | I have studied its history because it is the land of my birth and I feel I know it well , but only as a student , not as a patriot , not even as an exile . |
| 17 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 18 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 19 | We are now so close that his knife tangles in the material of my jacket and he loses it . |
| 20 | I was rather late back , when I got back I heard a knock on my bedroom door and she said it 's Miss and er I said , oh come in , I undid the door and she came in and er and so she said to me er , I just had a telephone message from Peel er to say that you have been subpoenaed to go the Police Court next Thursday and I said what a day out of my holiday and she said , well I 'm sorry but you 'll have to go . |
| 21 | by the side of my head and she landed up , sort of like this on the floor but sh , apparently she did n't quite get that right ! |
| 22 | ‘ The regiment saw an exhibition of my work and they commissioned it — which was very brave of them , in a way , as I 'd done very little before that . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's written at the front of my note-book and it says ‘ Private ’ in case you had n't noticed . ’ |
| 24 | Saunders said : ‘ I 'm enjoying the best form of my life and I go into every game fully expecting to score . |
| 25 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 26 | The Trevino era has been a special time of my life and he 's made me feel special . |
| 27 | For hours I could n't put those dreadful cries out of my mind and I imagined that with every breath my own stomach was swelling and about to burst . |
| 28 | ‘ The world championships are in the forefront of my mind and I have to be patient . |
| 29 | ‘ Everybody wanted a piece of my action and I found it very difficult to adjust . |
| 30 | And she grabs hold of my tee-shirt and she sucks it ! |