Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] my [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know everyone was walking like my hair I did n't know where I was everything that people said would like just echo in my head . |
| 2 | I said well what you do in your private life it 's up to you if you want to get drunk and you want to spend money then that 's fine but once you step over that clock tower I said and you start interfering with my work it 's a different thing , I said well I 've and I 've just said nothing because although you ai n't worked right , at least you 've sort of you 've work in this factory sort of in the morning , you 've got over it but |
| 3 | Shrinking into my seat I murmured , ‘ It has to be God . ’ |
| 4 | My mangled left hand feels as if it is being eaten by a rat , but I have so much adrenaline surging through my body I could sail . |
| 5 | and looking from my window I expect to see |
| 6 | According to my watch there 's still half an hour of the so-called working day left and I think that 's long enough to locate the appropriate file , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | According to my watch it was already after four o'clock , a rotten piece of information borne out by the angle of the sun . |
| 8 | ‘ According to my information your book has sold some eight thousand copies in the English language and the print figure in the Spanish edition was twenty-five thousand . |
| 9 | Anderson had done it before and so , according to my colleagues it was n't newsworthy . |
| 10 | Looking to my right there seemed to be a black jersey intervening . |
| 11 | I was writing to my MP who was writing to the Secretary of State who was writing to the High Commisioner and it just went on . |
| 12 | Looking at my arms I could see that the mosquitoes appeared to have had a field day . |
| 13 | G. S. Staines , of Darlington , was highly commended for ‘ No , I 'm not going just yet ; I 'm still waiting for my wife who has gone to collect a prescription . ’ |
| 14 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 15 | In her book Riding Through My Life she revealed that the KGB had then made several ham-fisted attempts to spy on her . |
| 16 | Before getting into my sleeping-bag I made myself a cup of cocoa , without milk , which I do n't much like , and with a generous lacing of whisky , which I do . |
| 17 | I thought again of the Sacrifice Poles ; more deliberately this time , picturing each one in turn , remembering their positions and their components , seeing in my mind what those sightless eyes looked out to , and flicking through each view like a security guard changing cameras on a monitor screen . |
| 18 | No I 've got a number of possibilities I 'm just check running through my mind which is the first one to go for . |
| 19 | I could see that the old bull was not going to be forced to drink , and he protested by coming after my father-in-law who made for the post . |
| 20 | I need to and what are you doing in my bag you nosy cow . |
| 21 | They were running round my house they were . |
| 22 | but Yvonne was saying on my wages I would n't get a mortgage ! |
| 23 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 24 | you 're coming to my house you know |
| 25 | My mother was talking about my niece who had chicken-pox when Thomas , four , suddenly asked : ‘ Nanna , does that mean Samantha can lay eggs ? ’ |
| 26 | Whether it was the disappointment showing on my face I shall never know , for my guide quickly added that it was a Celtic path and , perhaps , more than 4,000 years old . |
| 27 | Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out . |
| 28 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 29 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 30 | Jim snogging at my party I said yeah probably . |