Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | ‘ It is they who asked my help . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 're the woman who hates my dad . ’ |
| 4 | I bought a cheap biography of William Godwin and learned about Mary Wollstonecraft , who became my heroine . |
| 5 | I saw the surgeon who became my surgeon . |
| 6 | Within the first month of my being involved with the gay movement I met Angus , who became my lover then and remained my lover for ten years . |
| 7 | It was Elvis who kindled my interest in music . |
| 8 | Suffice to say , I was in street clothing at the time , looking , I 'd thought , the right if not the accurate side of forty , and Linal Haft , who plays my son , is three years older than I am . |
| 9 | And then I feel that I 've given myself to somebody who thinks my heart is a pretty flower . |
| 10 | Howard Hawks , who owned my contract , always said that he wanted to put me in a film with either Bogie , or Cary Grant , and I always thought , ‘ Oh , Cary Grant , naturally , how great that would be . ’ |
| 11 | My first priority , I knew , was to make friends with the two craggy , grey alligators who shared my basement prison . |
| 12 | I looked forward to discussing these problems with other teachers who shared my interest and concern . |
| 13 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 14 | Heavenly Father , thank you that as I come to you with my concerns about the conflicts in my life I come to a God who understands my humanity completely because you shared this experience fully in the life of your Son . |
| 15 | I could not possibly have been better looked after in any private hospital and my thanks and appreciation go to all those who made my recovery possible . |
| 16 | For it was Protestants who got better jobs , who skipped the queue for houses , who made my father work on Christmas day when the union voted against the optional holiday — to keep the Papes in their place . |
| 17 | How do you think they would react if I suddenly announced that the new man in my life is the man who ditched my sister five years ago ? ’ |
| 18 | I have my man and a bent old crone from the village who drinks my whisky which she thinks I do n't notice . |
| 19 | The kind of article that someone who lives my kind of life finds himself having to write to pay for that kind of life . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's me who needs my head examined ! ’ |
| 21 | Since it is Miss Ernestine Baker who has my heart . " |
| 22 | In 1912 he insisted , against opposition from the foreign ministry , that Prince Lichnowsky be appointed to the London embassy , saying " I send only my ambassador to London , who has my confidence , obeys my will , fulfills my orders with my instructions " . |
| 23 | There were two girls in my room in Hut 6 who drew my admiration . |
| 24 | Yes Moderator I think it was Mr who drew my attention yesterday |
| 25 | who pity my grasp of their mother tongue . |
| 26 | In any event I assumed the man in the overalls was the engineer and he was the one who caught my attention . |
| 27 | But then I met people like André , people in that world who recognised my beauty and that kind of validated me . |
| 28 | I plead for help , to you who caused my suffering , and you do not even bother to reply ! |
| 29 | Either I 'm going blind , or there 's a ghost in the house who eats my latkis and fish-cakes . |
| 30 | This recipe was given to my Evie who cut my hair in Episkopi . |