Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such stories come creeping into my mind as I sit on set at Arsenio Hall 's Paramount studio , watching Soul II Soul rehearse . |
| 2 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 3 | Ward 's voice smashed into my consciousness and I slammed on the brakes . |
| 4 | It 's my intention that they appear on my gravestone . |
| 5 | I was packing my kit when it dawned on me that the squad session would be over before I got there and that I would be concerned mainly with being kitted out as a member of the World Cup squad ’ . |
| 6 | Thus it was that Mrs Clamp found herself looking after my father while he insisted on looking after me . |
| 7 | The monument was raised by the power of the state as a piece of political theatre extravagant enough to be seen from miles and years away , as it was by my father when he passed on the Bapaume Road in the summer of 1944 . |
| 8 | ‘ Eleanor , my parents , quite a few of my friends — you never really made any effort to get along with the people who 'd been an important part of my life before you came on the scene . ’ |
| 9 | I have never felt so unhappy in my life as I did on that short airlift to Dibrugarh , leaving Burma almost entirely in the hands of the Japanese , and knowing how many hundreds of people were stranded on the railway line below Myitkyina . |
| 10 | You 'll be aboard my ship when we sail on the Sunday tide , and I 'll warrant you 'll thank me for it in the years to come . |
| 11 | I would be stretching the patience of my audience if I commented on them . |
| 12 | Do you really expect me to believe that it 's out of respect for my position that you insist on calling me Mr Vass ? ’ |
| 13 | Naturally , my master and I reflected on what had happened at Royston . |
| 14 | Some months later his wife told me he had intended to contribute to the cost of my expedition and she insisted on my receiving from his estate the amount he had meant to give me . |
| 15 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 16 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |