Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've certainly got me interested , and the shipping accounts may take my mind off being cross with you . |
| 2 | I knelt and prayed , not only for guidance and inspiration in the carving , but that a new era of peace and honesty should invade my life whilst I worked … ’ |
| 3 | My mind may command my body , quite unconsciously , to avoid the circumstances which arouse the guilt and my body may respond with some very physical obedience such as impotence or imagined pain . |
| 4 | Ed 's comment : Regular readers may remember my attack on the practice of dying Glassfish in an editorial last year calling for a complete ban . |
| 5 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 8 | Both may be escapist , but when pressed the most frequent response is ‘ Yes , but the farm/business would put my family at risk ’ . |
| 9 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 10 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
| 11 | The masks eyes hid my own eye 's movement , just as a filter over the mouth would alter my voice when I spoke , in case anyone was using an audio pick-up with instant voice-print comparison . |
| 12 | that kids will know my headlines off by heart . |
| 13 | But readers can appreciate my reason for feeling that brother Louis had let me down badly . |
| 14 | My immediate anxiety was that the authorities might forbid my journey , since the Asaimara of Bahdu had recently renounced their allegiance to the Government and refused to send tribute to Asba Tafari . |
| 15 | Your welcome may change my plans . |
| 16 | I was hoping that Jane would type my application , but when she came to visit me in Cambridge , she had her arm in plaster , having broken it . |
| 17 | I brooded constantly over why my being a girl rather than a boy would make my life so different from my brothers ’ . |
| 18 | But not having a degree would hinder my chances of getting a job . ’ |
| 19 | Or dare I hope that Miss Havisham would make my fortune and marry me to Estella ? |
| 20 | We 'll wait and see when the second draft comes to this Council , when the Council will discuss my points and agree or disagree that they should be included or not . |
| 21 | I 'm sure my knitting machine can read my mood . |
| 22 | Mum 's story ‘ One hug could kill my daughter ’ |
| 23 | ‘ One hug could kill my daughter ’ |
| 24 | She believes that the respite of a holiday in Cambridge would speed my recovery . |
| 25 | Unfortunately I did not fully understand that the usefulness of the machine was limited by its memory capacity and the extent to which not having a hard disk would limit my son 's use of the machine . |
| 26 | ‘ I can go home tomorrow , Doug can bring my clothes . |
| 27 | I can not see how this war can affect my future . |
| 28 | A flow'r may fade before ‘ t is noon , And I this day may lose my breath . |
| 29 | Anyway , I reckoned that this unexpected development might make my task a little easier . |
| 30 | i 'll bring my mate with me so then we just miss three ? are plans for such a game real ? ( joke i guess ? ) if so what kind of footwear should i bring over ? |