Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations took place with the orthopaedic department to enable me to refer my own patients . |
| 2 | One also said , to my amazement , ‘ porno Film ’ , and having time to kill I made my way there . |
| 3 | Especially if they are near me , I will be the first to thump them to maintain my cover : - } . |
| 4 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 5 | I want him to know he has my son 's blood on his hands . |
| 6 | I 'll recruit somebody to help me service my client bank , because it 's better to have fifty percent of something than fifty percent of nothing . |
| 7 | To help me recover my confidence ? |
| 8 | X amount is going to be needed to help me achieve my objectives . |
| 9 | Lord Airlie also went out of his way to help me find my feet . |
| 10 | I do n't have to ask you what I should do in my spare time , and — and I suppose now you wo n't want to help me find my mother , and that 's all right with me , I do n't care ! ’ |
| 11 | " But it 's going to help me keep my share of the house , and Aunt Alicia would approve of that . |
| 12 | It was n't a fortune but was enough to help me buy my first flat and first TV . |
| 13 | Curiously enough , it was a sad event which did as much as anything in 1992 to help me put my own worries into perspective . |
| 14 | I belonged to that great multitude who could n't help liking Dick Crossman : he and I were always nice to one another , right to the day in 1974 shortly before his death when he came to the Birmingham Bull Ring in acute physical discomfort to hear me advise my fellow-electors to vote Labour if they wanted out of the Common Market . |
| 15 | ‘ You were surprised to hear me speak my mind . ’ |
| 16 | Either way , I hope you 'll do what you can to help us rescue my niece . ’ |
| 17 | And this is the second day you 've refused to let me bring my bedding up . |
| 18 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 19 | She was quite happy to let me do my survey and eventually I had to make my excuses or she would have gone on chatting all day . |
| 20 | She was the one who refused to let me see my father . ’ |
| 21 | Suddenly he noticed how pale I was , and stopped for a moment to let me get my breath back . |
| 22 | So I have to ask you to leave me to find my peace again . |
| 23 | On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc . |
| 24 | I raised my eyebrows , resolving , as I did so , to let him know my side of the story as soon as possible . |
| 25 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 26 | My present aim , in fact , is not to rely on Brentano 's conception of consciousness , but to use it to introduce my own somewhat related one . |
| 27 | ‘ Mind you , I try not to let it cramp my style unduly . |
| 28 | The truth is , I have had only enough to permit me to drown my sorrows . ’ |
| 29 | I wish to see her to renew my offer of marriage , although … ’ and his voice trembled ‘ … |
| 30 | Negotiations took place to change this ruling and also to allow me to interpret my own X-rays without having to refer to senior medical staff . |