Example sentences of "my [noun pl] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society . |
| 2 | Yet now , ’ his look was amicable , ‘ you , Miss Kingsdale , with your haughty manner ’ her haughty manner ? ‘ wish me to at once revoke my plans and allow you to ask me endless work-orientated questions . ’ |
| 3 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 4 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 5 | I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch . |
| 6 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 7 | But then hands of steel get hold of my ankles and start pulling at me — pulling pulling pulling . |
| 8 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 9 | He tears my knickers and thrusts his hand inside me , and I hit him , hard . |
| 10 | I dropped my cords and squatted down , leaning back against the five-star pump and breathing heavily as the pool of steaming piss collected on the bark-rough concrete of the fuel apron . |
| 11 | ‘ Basically they are simple — you obey my wishes and prevent me being too overworked — ’ |
| 12 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 13 | Quelling panic , I took out my notes and glanced through them hastily . |
| 14 | He glanced down at my notes and touched his own chest , first on the left then on the right as if beginning the sign of the cross : ‘ Both . ’ |
| 15 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 16 | Daddy kept rather obviously bestirring himself to mind about my exams and piling up my desk with secondary stuff I 've no time for — I do n't want to read literary criticism yet , almost at all , and I 'm damned sure he does n't smother his clever boys with it . |
| 17 | I pick up my possessions and prepare to walk home along the quayside past the Salute , when the same gondola reapears on its return journey . |
| 18 | ‘ The computers as usual , I suppose , but you 'd better ring my solicitors and ask them to cable you the cash . |
| 19 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 21 | I took up a lot of my daffs and started , erm erm I never take them up every year |
| 22 | I then deliberately smudge the area with my fingers and pick out the highlights with a plastic eraser . |
| 23 | I then deliberately smudge the area with my fingers and pick out the highlights with a plastic eraser . |
| 24 | When I was in prison I used to grip my fingers and bite my tongue and think , ‘ Right , do n't do anything . ’ |
| 25 | I caught it , held it in my fingers and put it out of the window . |
| 26 | But when I rubbed the leaves between my fingers and offered her my fingertips to sniff , her reaction was dramatic . |
| 27 | And it 's run through my fingers and gone , you see ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Stay here , ’ she said and touched my fingers and stroked them . |
| 29 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 30 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |