Example sentences of "my [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tearing my hair out by the roots . |
| 2 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 3 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 4 | I had to make haste now or I would be late , so I threw my kit in the back of the Porsche , threaded my way through the traffic on the Kingston By-pass and then put my foot down on the M3 , keeping a wary eye open for the police . |
| 5 | I had n't slammed my foot down on the brake . |
| 6 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |
| 7 | I took all my money out of the banks , sold everything I had and packed up . ’ |
| 8 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 9 | I took my skis back to the shop next morning , realising that perhaps the marginal snowbridges and crevasses of the Argentiere glacier were not an ideal nursery . |
| 10 | But when I pack my skis back into the hall cupboard behind the vacuum cleaner , I want my hills unsullied by pylons and snow fences . |
| 11 | I daresay you were right , I should n't have brushed my teeth out of the tap . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was running just 20 miles a week in my build up for the race . |
| 13 | My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still . |
| 14 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 15 | I dumped the carrier with my groceries down beside the road , and set off across the moor . |
| 16 | I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’ |
| 17 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 19 | I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England . |
| 20 | I must get my mind back to the here and now . |
| 21 | I dragged my mind back into the world of Anna and Dmitri Charsky . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll be the first to pull my kids out of the school if this curriculum is introduced , ’ says Anna Saez , parent association head of the Elmhurst public school . |
| 23 | And I can move my car round into the garage ? |
| 24 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 25 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 26 | Fenella was half way down the stairs to meet me before I had my key out of the front door . |
| 27 | If one goes to the slightly higher figure , which would be more appropriate for inner suburban development , then instead of my cut out for the Land Ranger map , for one and a half square kilometres , one hundred and fifty hectares , one can take the new ten penny piece . |
| 28 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 29 | I was thinking , oh yeah I 'll just chop my legs off at the knee shall I ? |
| 30 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |