Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can give me permission to wash my hair . |
| 2 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 3 | I MUST N'T let my heart rule my head . |
| 4 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 5 | Like a politician I may have overstated my case to make my point . |
| 6 | Two of the ruffians seized me , pushing me against the fence , and I could only gabble in horror as their leader drew a long , thin stiletto and pulled back my shirt to expose my throat . |
| 7 | On I Crush Bozo and My Skin Covers My Body , Happy Flowers take hardcore back to its primal matrix of unrequited desire and disproportionate rage : infancy 's uncontrolled appetites for oral and anal gratification , its delusions of omnipotence , its terror of the breakdown of the borderline between identity and the primal abjection out of which it 's formed . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew then that my decision to send my secretary away on business was the right one . ’ |
| 9 | How can my Mum suck my Dad 's cunt ? |
| 10 | My mum had my sister before she was married , when she was seventeen . |
| 11 | Yeah my mum hates my gran actually , well she does n't hate her , she loves her |
| 12 | he , that you , he , he , he walks in a , in his sleep , I saw him , he 's in a daze okay then , I 'll just tell my mum put my coat up hello , hi ya |
| 13 | My action recalled my presence to him . |
| 14 | I pressed snow against my bruised face , and managed to melt more snow in my mouth to quench my thirst . |
| 15 | It was my intention to spend my time there simply painting the landscape and I wanted to work with strong colour on a large scale . |
| 16 | I 'm here on my own , and I 've just had a phone call from my brother-in-law to say my sister is dangerously ill . |
| 17 | I went back to my handbag to get my nailfile , then returned to where Katrina was kneeling and crouched down beside her . |
| 18 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |
| 19 | If I had n't had my child to take my mind off things , God alone knows what I would have done to you . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm just a counterman , and if my boss knew my wife worked I should get the sack , because people would think he did n't pay me enough ’ . |
| 21 | It was n't until lunchtime that my boss drew my attention to the strange ‘ hairband ’ I was wearing . |
| 22 | My grandma told my father off for growing a beard . |
| 23 | And when we were apart and my thoughts were about him , my body absorbed my mind 's obsession and throbbed for him . |
| 24 | Last week Julian discussed cross-dressing , his eye having been caught by an article in Family Circle headlined ‘ I Found My Husband Wearing My Nightdress ’ . |
| 25 | Every evening I make my husband criticise my day 's work , poor man , and I must say he 's been very supportive , ’ confessed Delia . |
| 26 | This she had made me promise when I was nine and she continued to insist that my refusal to live my life her way was selfishness and rank ingratitude . |
| 27 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 28 | Pamella ! ’ and I 'm just freaking out and hanging on to Tim Taylor , trying to get to the plane , and I 'm wearing this scarf on my head to cover my face and they had pulled a straw — they said this ! — for who was going to tear the veil from my face and this fat guy got it and ripped it , pulled my hair , poked me in the eye — I was physically assaulted ! |
| 29 | No my friend says my friend 's boyfriend knows and she went out with him for a , like a year and he was , she was . |
| 30 | My father took my arm . |