Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other hairy moment was when one of them tried to eat my camera . |
| 2 | I told them to put a tourniquet on my arm and give me some morphia , whereupon one of them started to bandage my wrist and the other went off to ask what morphia was . |
| 3 | Naturally , they made getting my visa as difficult as possible , even now after all the changes . |
| 4 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 5 | I 'd told them I had immigration problems and that they 'd stopped my benefit . |
| 6 | Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it . |
| 7 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 8 | ‘ A lot of women would n't have the nerve to wear this , possum ( how they wish they 'd had my recipe for stretch-mark ointment ) but I feel I have to thrust ahead at the forefront of fashion . |
| 9 | Did you say they 'd got my phone tapped ? ’ |
| 10 | The only reason the police got anything out of me was because they threatened to question my daughter . |
| 11 | I think they began to realise my destiny did not tie in with theirs . |
| 12 | Then they began following my daughter and she was forced to leave the country as well . |
| 13 | When my uncle got married , they started treating my Kaki ( aunt ) badly . |
| 14 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , they managed to send my mother to Oxford . |
| 16 | In 1986 I noticed that the Americans and Italians were wearing extremely skintight shorts , and while there was no chance I was going to wear those , they did set my imagination in motion . |
| 17 | A week later I was invited to take a look at the finished model , discovering then to my horror they had reproduced my sketch to the letter . |
| 18 | They had removed my house and everything in it , ’ he said . |
| 19 | If only they had shown my foresight they would have had nothing to worry about . |
| 20 | Moments later they had taken my picture and were on their way . |
| 21 | They had drugged my wine before moving me to that horror-filled garden . |
| 22 | They wanted to give my body a chance to return to normal . ’ |
| 23 | They all said they wanted to visit my country and I nodded my head , promising it would n't cost them a penny , thinking how the people in the village would crowd around them , look at their coloured hair , some of it short and some long . |
| 24 | There were a lot of street girls and petty criminals , he called them his pros and cons , but one of them had seen my daughter Pippa a week earlier in a cafeteria somewhere near . |
| 25 | I told them how I had worked on the problem and now one of them had ruined my theory ! |