Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I felt so different about my daughter and tried to learn where she 'd gotten to . |
| 2 | It was really difficult to keep a straight face , but then Mr Taylor ‘ introduced ’ us and I just forgot about my shyness and launched into my speech . |
| 3 | I asked first about my bag and felt my breathing quicken when the chief seemed unable to find my deposition . |
| 4 | He was very impertinent about my wine and said it always had pieces of cork floating in it . |
| 5 | He snatched the chart off my lap and worked out a crude course for the remote island . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 7 | When I arrived at Miss Louise 's door , out of breath from running , I kicked the snow off my clogs and went straight in . |
| 8 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
| 9 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 10 | There was dirt underneath my fingernails and my hangover was worse than normal , as the result of weeks of drinking throbbed through my head and churned my stomach . |
| 11 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 12 | Breathing heavily , he reached for my shoulder and pulled me towards him . |
| 13 | I attended the medical centre for my test and stood in my underpants for an hour in a shiny-clean waiting room with yellow walls and a kitten sitting in the corner . |
| 14 | I merely apologised for my rudeness and accepted a second cup of tea . |
| 15 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 16 | ‘ She thanked me for my courtesy and prophesied that one day I would play against Europe 's greatest prince in a game of hazard , and win . |
| 17 | Sir Sidney Barton was apprehensive for my safety and suggested I should join him and Lord Airlie on a short hunting trip near the Awash Station . |
| 18 | I decided in the circumstances that the 35 US gallon model was hardly adequate for my purposes and traded up to the 55 US gallon model . |
| 19 | I climbed the highest of these one day when Mallaig was too crowded with visitors for my liking and suffered my only experience of hostility from a Highlander . |
| 20 | I gave them their full due , repeating all that my sister-in-law had said , and told them that I would hear from my brother himself that evening , then paid for my groceries and made my escape . |
| 21 | she called back to the card players , over her shoulder , and then she put a silky arm round my neck and drew my face down to hers , and fastened those red , red lips on to my mouth and darted her snake-like tongue between my teeth and pressed her whole soft body right up to mine and seemed to squirm with pleasure . |
| 22 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 23 | But when I rubbed the leaves between my fingers and offered her my fingertips to sniff , her reaction was dramatic . |
| 24 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 25 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 26 | I wandered around after my swim but did n't see any staff . |
| 27 | I remember the pleasant surprise I had when Olivia Manning , sitting next to me on some poetry-reading platform ( the ICA ? ) turned to her husband after my reading and remarked to him — a BBC radio producer — ‘ Now there 's a poet who knows how to read poetry . |
| 28 | ‘ If it had n't been for the native Africans in the community who rallied round , looked after my wife and kept leaving food parcels outside the door we would have been sunk . |
| 29 | The guard , I thought , and paid no more attention to it until it stopped opposite my window and spoke . |
| 30 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |