Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see me too in my deliberate vanishing . |
| 2 | if you bring them over to my house |
| 3 | I wish I could flush them out of my head . |
| 4 | ‘ Why is it that when I do fall , it has to be for a termagant who drives me out of my head ? |
| 5 | ‘ Now , ’ he whispered confidentially , ‘ the thing to remember is that the Greek Orthodox priest is the one on the left with the beard , ’ and with that flung me determinedly into my seat . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you all right , darling ? ’ he asked , and led me along to my son 's house ! |
| 7 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 8 | I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave . |
| 9 | Not only that she 's bringing them back to my house , you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Dear God , Rory , ’ he murmured , ‘ you 're driving me out of my mind ! ’ |
| 12 | come up mum 's with the , and he snatched my handbag and he took the keys , he said that copper has got no rights to tell him to hand over them keys to me , I said what and he snatched them out of my handbag and I 've got no rights to my own house keys and I said what rights have I got to do , down his flat and collect half of my stuff back then ? |
| 13 | But this year an even more offensive marketing ploy is keeping me away from my Christmas shopping . |
| 14 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 15 | Signe stood behind me and helped me off with my coat . |
| 16 | I 'm just ringing up to say you helped me along with my ironing great . |
| 17 | But you helped me out with my grades so I 'll overlook that . ’ |
| 18 | I would have come to find you again with my heart in my hand . |
| 19 | I had carried you around inside my mind for years and here was total stranger kissing you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll lay you any money she 's checking you out with my aunt . ’ |
| 21 | I want you out of my room . |
| 22 | I want you out of my life . |
| 23 | I try to pull her in to my chest , but she turns away . |
| 24 | I ai n't got a hankie or nothing so I try and lick it off with my tongue , but I ca n't get all of it . |
| 25 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |
| 26 | Just trying to work it out in my head he 'd be |
| 27 | He meant me to pass it on to my son . ’ |
| 28 | His paw landed in the ashtray , knocking it out of my hand and spilling the few precious drops I had caught . |
| 29 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 30 | and taille , " tail " , thus " rear parts , genitals " , thus giving something like : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my crotch " |