Example sentences of "[vb past] my [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , when you realized my connection with the case at Bloomwater , they were the bully-boys you turned on to me . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 3 | With a mounting feeling of dread , I went to a chair at the far end of the table from Quigley and lowered my head in the gloom . |
| 4 | And erm I got my ironing out the way and then I can go to my mother then , and start to paint , paint the bathroom tomorrow . |
| 5 | I got my part of the control lines together and carried them in a loop round to the kite . |
| 6 | I think it 's about time I got my share of the |
| 7 | ‘ I got my chance in the national side when injuries put me into the match against Romania in Bucharest three years ago . |
| 8 | I got my schooling on the hoof . ’ |
| 9 | Thou got my eckle up the day thou left , and it 's been sky ‘ igh over eight year . ’ |
| 10 | In another case , headlined as ‘ The Alleged Hooligan Tragedy ’ , a man died after a street-fight and it was reported that on arrival at hospital he had made a statement to the effect that , ‘ I got my injuries in the Borough through being kicked to death by Hooligans . ’ |
| 11 | When I got my hands under the protruding portion I realized there was no point in heaving . |
| 12 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 13 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 14 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 15 | That was how she met my father in the early years of the war . |
| 16 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 17 | When I was out on the road I mean before I came into training I was so I laid my cards at the table at this point in time to say yes I need to sell insurance erm and I always remember particular broker who you go in and and he 's saying well so how many of these particular products would you sell over the next year and he said oh twenty five and you go in great , guy 's promised to sell twenty five domestic contents policies over the next year . |
| 18 | The situation had become embarrassing , so I laid my rod in the rest , with the hook hanging from the butt-ring , and tied on my mate 's hook for him . |
| 19 | ‘ What have you done ? ’ asked my mother from the doorway , her arms full of branches of copper-beech . |
| 20 | A FEW DAYS after the master had forbidden Cathy to visit Linton , he asked my opinion of the boy . |
| 21 | Another recently asked my advice about the finer points of his own computer program so that he might catalogue more accurately his card collection , so vast had it become ( if any one has a mint Drummahoe No 1 , he would be most indebted ) . |
| 22 | I asked my husband of the punishment for the young males who had participated , but he had no answer . |
| 23 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 24 | He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder . |
| 25 | When I fought my way up the brae and saw all the council houses I almost turned back dismissing the possibility of there being any evidence of older architecture . |
| 26 | I fought my way through the crowd and there 's these kids playing electric guitars through this tiny amp . |
| 27 | The Corporal stood and glared at me as I very swiftly made my exit through the door , pausing briefly to pick up my rucksack and bagpipe box . |
| 28 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |
| 29 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 30 | As I wheeled my tenth-hand push-bike through the gates of the Parsons ' large detached house and made my way across the gravel forecourt past the guests ' Volvos and Audis , I began to feel uncomfortably out of my depth . |