Example sentences of "my [noun] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I can colour my hair to fill in the gap . |
| 2 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 3 | ‘ I used my shirt to put out the flames . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 5 | It does n't improve his nerves now to see me sitting on his carpet timing Casey 's phone rings with my stopwatch to work out the number he dialled . |
| 6 | I could smell the citronella that I put on my skin to ward off the mosquitoes and feel the breeze beginning to rise from the river . |
| 7 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 8 | The phantom of the opera is here inside my mind pull back the curtains |
| 9 | ‘ They were old and shredded but it crossed my mind to get out the glue stick . ’ |
| 10 | I closed my eyes to shut out the glow from the cloverleaf window and tried for sleep . |
| 11 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 12 | But I was a little person in er a commu community of little person and er my brothers worked down the pit and I believe it was an advantage not to be much greater than five foot in height down the pits . |
| 13 | When I return my headlights sweep over the boss and this woman . ’ |
| 14 | My boss put down the Record , rose and stretched expansively . |
| 15 | ‘ But my daddy babbled out the truth . ’ |
| 16 | My eye skips down the page . |
| 17 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 18 | Then one time when I put my hand in my sleeve to bring out the compass , it was n't there . |
| 19 | I 'd sit up in my room bashing out the blues like I was Blind Lemon Matlock . |
| 20 | My husband gets out the car |
| 21 | It 's my job to weed out the black sheep really , it 's pretty straight forward . |
| 22 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 23 | I let my back slide down the pillar until I was virtually squatting on the floor . |
| 24 | My wife went down the fellside to a cottage and the lady kindly called 999 for help . |
| 25 | I ran upstairs , pausing by the back stairwell window to watch my father disappear round the dune before the bridge , ran up the stairs , got to the door to the study and twisted the handle briskly . |
| 26 | ‘ My father , Leslie , was his agent and I remember my father screaming down the phone at Joseph , usually about money ! |
| 27 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 28 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 29 | A telephone caller to the South African Press Association claiming to be a commander of the Azanian People 's Liberation Army ( APLA ) , the military wing of the radical black nationalist Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , said : ‘ My people carried out the attack . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I had my people check out the three scentmakers . |