Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 's already been denied £4,000 in not facing the Windies , and said from his Melbourne home last night : ‘ The selectors have put me in the position where I have to work out what is right for my family and me . ’ |
| 32 | He enquired for my family and I for his . |
| 33 | Continental Airlines became one of our sponsors , offering tickets for my husband and I to go to London and to come home from Australia . |
| 34 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |
| 35 | Essentially I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas and I 'm not interested in it for its own sake . |
| 36 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 37 | I just wondered because we were in Winners once and it had some and he picked them up and he looked at them and he said I do n't think these are the right shape for my car and I know he needs some . |
| 38 | of the electorate — it is impossible for my colleagues and me to involve ourselves in all the work of the House . |
| 39 | He said he had some news , but it was only for my ears and I must keep it confidential . |
| 40 | He said , well , he said there was two of us he said working together and er , I 'd be look out for my mate or he 'd be look out for me , he says erm ooh , between five and six hundred a year , he said they pinch ! |
| 41 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 42 | You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today . |
| 43 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |
| 44 | PAMELA : Then , dear sir , there is nothing at all amiss in the correspondence between my lady and you ? |
| 45 | I could lean forward till my head was between my metatarsals and they 'd still need a zoom lens to catch even a hint of Page 3 . |
| 46 | But within days meal times became battlegrounds between my family and me , and I needed the long walks more than ever , to let off steam . |
| 47 | Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' . |
| 48 | Yes , your mother ( Kathleen to us ) kept house and looked after my sister and me when my mother died . |
| 49 | Paul from Tamworth says er I 'm a single man looking after my children and I do n't get a penny from my ex-wife . |
| 50 | The demands of running a home , looking after my father and me , and going out to work , were too great . |
| 51 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 52 | It 's about 1½ ″ below my shoulders and I am trying to grow it so that I can have a style that 's cut straight across the bottom . |
| 53 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 54 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 55 | I did n't want to lose any of my squad and it makes my job a little bit easier this summer . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ I 'll never forget the trauma of my miscarriages and I will quietly remember each of my babies . |
| 57 | I have studied its history because it is the land of my birth and I feel I know it well , but only as a student , not as a patriot , not even as an exile . |
| 58 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 59 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 60 | ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes . |