Example sentences of "of my [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 2 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |
| 3 | I remember a man coming up to me at Sandhurst and looking at the back of my hair and saying , ‘ What regiment are you going into ? ’ and I said ‘ The Grenadiers , ’ and he said ‘ You appear to be growing your own bear skin . ’ |
| 4 | I prepared to collect the rest of my medicines and make for the hospital , when the policeman said to me , ‘ Excuse me , sir . |
| 5 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 6 | Instead he took the wineskin from the horn of my saddle and forced me to drink . |
| 7 | I handed him my watch , stared at his grin for a moment , then slipped out of my shorts and ran out on to the jetty to plunge into the sudden cold shock of the lake . |
| 8 | Now what I want to do in this lecture is to finish off the er introductory part of my , of my remarks and take us up to the point where beginning at twelve o'clock the real part , the real er core of this course begins when we start to look at social theory . |
| 9 | I slipped out of my hiding-place and went to St John 's Wood . |
| 10 | I fumbled out of my dress and crawled into bed in my underclothes . |
| 11 | ‘ You and your little nerves , ’ he said and he put his fingers in the back of the collar of my dress and pulled it slightly as though I was a recalcitrant dog . |
| 12 | Slowly , I took my fists out of my pockets and opened them empty . |
| 13 | She came up in front of my parents and said : ‘ Would you like to take this home , put a sample in it and we 'll do a sperm count for you ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 15 | I drain the last of my whisky and look into the empty glass . |
| 16 | A representative nineteenth century collection , with Thackeray in original wrappers at either end , Charles Reade , George MacDonald and John Stuart Mill in original cloth ; and Tales of my Landlord and Walks in Oxford in boards with paper labels . |
| 17 | I do what I do to the best of my ability and hope that people will hear about it and come and visit . |
| 18 | After a while he let go of my head and started to cross himself furiously . |
| 19 | I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along , rather that it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him . |
| 20 | I forgot that someone was living illegally in Paris on the floor of my home and demanding a large sum of money to leave . |
| 21 | But Ngugi managed to lift me out of my armchair and place me inside his imaginary village of Ilmorog . |
| 22 | While I have not been a wildly flag-waving Canadian I am proud of my birthplace and continue to admire Canada and Canadians immensely , which sentiments must not be taken as damning with faint praise . |
| 23 | While Grainger was talking I had torn a page out of my diary and written on it ‘ Why was Jefferson in California a lot ? |
| 24 | But then hands of steel get hold of my ankles and start pulling at me — pulling pulling pulling . |
| 25 | By the way , I do appreciate your magazine , I have had it each month since the arrival of my machine and find it contains so many helpful and interesting items . |
| 26 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 27 | ‘ I had got part way up the tree when the bear grabbed one of my shoes and pulled it off , ’ she recalled . |
| 28 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 29 | Maybe , on the underground conveyors in some as yet undug mine , the shiny blackness will split and reveal , like the shape of a leaf , the last faint outline of my life and work … |
| 30 | ‘ Sport was the love of my life and having to give it up has left a void , ’ said Rosemary . |