Example sentences of "my [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 2 | ‘ My sons gave it to me . |
| 3 | My heart tells me of a perfect flower in the centre of the garden and I move along the pathways , stopping to drink in some new and dazzling sight or scent that arrests me . |
| 4 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
| 5 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 6 | My views affect me as a person . |
| 7 | I suppose I 've done my part to help them by writing extensively about laser weapons for New Scientist and other magazines . |
| 8 | I found no great welcome ; people seemed quite oblivious of my arrival , and no doubt it was unconscious arrogance on my part to expect it to be otherwise . |
| 9 | Jamie shoved one hand down the back of my cords to keep me from falling on my face , and put the other hand on to my forehead , murmuring something . |
| 10 | My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house . |
| 11 | Well my mum got it for |
| 12 | Well my Mum done it for me . |
| 13 | I had that and my mum sent me to ballet classes |
| 14 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 15 | One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me . |
| 16 | My mum washed mine at the weekend and they 're in a pile on my floor and I have n't been arsed so I 'm just sleeping on the mattress with the bare duvet . |
| 17 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |
| 18 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 19 | My sister reminds me of our isolation , the neighbours who fed us meat and sweets , the tea parties we went out to but which we were never allowed to return . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the tail rotors that do the damage — and I 'd hate to spend my afternoon scraping you off the roof . ’ |
| 21 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 22 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 23 | It 's a thought that crossed my mind to help you as a trainer . |
| 24 | ‘ It would never for one moment cross my mind to accuse you of being a sentimentalist . ’ |
| 25 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 26 | Then I said , or perhaps one of my voices said it for me , " I do n't know . |
| 27 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ My agent told you about the remuneration ? ’ |
| 29 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 30 | I strain my ears to hear it , like distant music ; my eyes see it as a very bright light very far away . |