Example sentences of "i [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 2 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 3 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 4 | For I too have the same taint of ‘ foolishness ’ upon me as my great-uncle Fred , though I 've so far escaped the anguish of his illness . |
| 5 | As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me about my real father . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not used to some bloody apprentice waltzing into my house and asking me about my private affairs — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What right have you to ask me about my private life ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What right have you to ask me about my private life ? |
| 10 | In the interview they asked me about my future plans . |
| 11 | D' you know that guy comes into my office about twice a day and perches on my desk like a bird of ill omen all ready to commiserate with me about my wretched lot ? |
| 12 | He had asked me about my unusual name . |
| 13 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 14 | I in my personal opinion I I do n't think it is . |
| 15 | They were a decent lot and I was glad that they accepted me despite my anomalous position . |
| 16 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 17 | I detest the armoured , air-conditioned truck that deprived me of my final opportunity to desecrate the holy relic that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 18 | Even when Samuel is facing death by having his throat cut in the Gents the exchange goes like this , ‘ Mother of Mary , that reminds me of my poor Joseph going . |
| 19 | It was a bulky volume to carry around and my RAF friends used to rib me about my " vest pocket edition " , but I had resolved to keep reading it in spare moments to remind me of my real life . |
| 20 | Stan Wickenden , purchasing director of Renshaws , quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions that Mitcham harboured fabulous nut-cracking machinery : ‘ Of course , you realise that most nuts are imported ready shelled . |
| 21 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
| 22 | It 's still not gon na relive me of my vocal duties , though . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But I ai n't scared of that great ox of a matron , even if she does remind me of my old commandant . |
| 24 | It was projected by a thin young student at a concert where I was trying to do my performance , and it reminded me of my intentional projection of wrong words at the English Teacher when I was at school . |
| 25 | She had not asked me of my previous experiences . |
| 26 | Rutherford cites Lawrence 's own remark in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom to the effect that this identification ‘ quitted me of my English self , and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes : they destroyed it all for me ’ . |
| 27 | I was glad to hear the accent , for it reminded me of my exciting days in Northern Ireland , recounted elsewhere . |
| 28 | ‘ That you 're keen to finish what you started in St Lucia , so you 'd like to rid me of my inconvenient hang-ups ? ’ |
| 29 | Actually you remind me of my fucking Triumph |
| 30 | Yes : here was the Bus Station , and there was Vern sitting beside me with my ham-and-tomato sandwich in his pocket . |