Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] my [noun] " 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 | When they stopped pulling my clothes off that 's when I packed up singing . |
| 6 | My mind games were not always concerned with the past ; sometimes they involved transforming my surroundings into a fantasy landscape . |
| 7 | I 'd told them I had immigration problems and that they 'd stopped my benefit . |
| 8 | Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it . |
| 9 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 10 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Anyway , they 'd got my papers wrong well before that . |
| 13 | Did you say they 'd got my phone tapped ? ’ |
| 14 | The only reason the police got anything out of me was because they threatened to question my daughter . |
| 15 | I think they began to realise my destiny did not tie in with theirs . |
| 16 | Then they began following my daughter and she was forced to leave the country as well . |
| 17 | The combination of the move and the reassuring presence of the Scats was successful , as they began to accept my visits , although they do remain somewhat ‘ edgy ’ if anyone else enters the fish room . |
| 18 | When my uncle got married , they started treating my Kaki ( aunt ) badly . |
| 19 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , they managed to send my mother to Oxford . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They had become my friends and there was no way that I would now go back to being their problem dependant . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They had removed my house and everything in it , ’ he said . |
| 25 | They had enjoyed my Watering-Place , a collection of interlinked sketches about Tunbridge Wells , lately published ( 'We 'd been rather badly off for books ' ) , and they had tales of other writers . |
| 26 | If only they had shown my foresight they would have had nothing to worry about . |
| 27 | If they had found my works , I 'd still be there . ’ |
| 28 | Moments later they had taken my picture and were on their way . |
| 29 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 30 | They had drugged my wine before moving me to that horror-filled garden . |