Example sentences of "my [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must put my Saviour always before me as my example , friend and guide . |
| 2 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 3 | It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch . |
| 4 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 5 | For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico — I was crying . |
| 6 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 7 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 8 | I 'd look better blonde and I assumed that I could wash the colour out before my parents saw : I must have been naive to think that bleach would affect my hair differently from anything else . |
| 9 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 10 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 11 | I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’ |
| 12 | Cos I definitely want my hair long for when we get married . |
| 13 | My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to . |
| 14 | I straightened my tie and guided my hair back with my hands . |
| 15 | them into my hair out of sheer joy , and |
| 16 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 17 | combing my hair out in a darkened room |
| 18 | Tearing my hair out by the roots . |
| 19 | I much prefer expressing my views publicly in the House to my constituents and others . |
| 20 | ‘ But so are you , ’ I protested , really astonished because he had been so reasonable about my activities up to now . |
| 21 | I brought my bombs back on many occasions , because I am quite certain we never got anywhere near anything that looked like a target . |
| 22 | Oh at Handsworth , I 'm meant to go there this evening to speak to the domestic bursar the residents ' officer and someone else , God knows , from the university to put my case forward for why I had to leave Handsworth and that , why I should n't pay the money . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to hand my cans in as mayor to lead the way , ’ said Coun Bolland . |
| 24 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll take my bike out for a ride . ’ |
| 26 | I was so tired I had to get off my bike twice on the way up to Creeting and sit on the side of the road in the snow for a spell before I could go on . |
| 27 | 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 ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I had n't slammed my foot down on the brake . |
| 30 | As she was to tell one of her oldest friends : ‘ I only wish I 'd put my foot down with them years ago . ’ |