Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [adv] [verb] my [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And if you had n't interfered and ruined my life I might not now have my career in ruins !
2 And what I 'll do is , I 'll not only pack my Christmas presents into that .
3 I 'd rather fucking pick my arse .
4 I could only just control my tears .
5 The boy came over and put his arm round me , as if he could not quite believe my laughter and my lack of agitation .
6 I could just about twitch my fingers , but certainly could n't pick anything up .
7 I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come .
8 " When I holed the putt to win , I could n't even feel my hands .
9 The pannier bags normally stay on , but this climb came only one day into the trip and with a fortnight 's food on board I could n't even lift my bike .
10 I said OK — but when the letter arrived , they could n't even spell my name properly .
11 As for point ( b ) , I could n't even get my brain cells around the questions never mind the answers .
12 There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end .
13 I was partnering Sandy Lyle against Lee Trevino and Sean Connery and I was shaking so much with nerves , I could n't even balance my ball on a little wooden tee at the first .
14 I could n't even raise my leg behind me and I thought it was a sign to give up .
15 ‘ I 'd like to be busy and I could n't just stop my life after tennis .
16 But all the propaganda I could make could n't really overcome my fear .
17 I heard Silver on the phone last night and could n't quite belive my ears .
18 I could n't quite get my head around the fact that this vast underground world existed , going on and on underground with chambers , tunnels , streams and pools , all underneath hills , roads and houses .
19 I , I go because I , I feel I must support the shop , but I could n't possibly do my family shopping there .
20 I could n't possibly allow my wife to work for men who ca n't keep their minds on the job and their hands to themselves . ’
21 At this point I could no longer contain my curiosity and rushed through to see what he looked like as he said it , thinking of all the teachers I know who would cherish these rare kind words .
22 I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while .
23 But I could no longer bear my life to be shrouded in the Guérigny grief .
24 We were in opposite camps , and he could no more appreciate my line of reasoning than I could see his point of view , and finally we parted .
25 ‘ I would much rather define my intentions as pornographic than erotic ’ , responded Mairowitz .
26 Me being carted off with the sirens going would just about put my street cred in overdraft .
27 It was the list of undesirable aliens who were banned from entering the Bahamas , and if my name was put on that Stop List , and if I was then thrown off the islands , I would probably never see my boat again .
28 I just would n't normally check my statement .
29 I would n't normally buy my wife flowers unless I was late or had done something wrong .
30 The second one : having got over the actual evacuation and the idea that I probably would n't ever see my mother again , being evacuated in itself was great .
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