Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 I 'll never forget my father 's face .
32 I 'll never see my brother again , ’ she moaned , hating herself for sounding so foolish when her grief was so vast .
33 I 'll never turn my nose up at you , and never at Mrs Aggie .
34 I could also give my opinion of the way you 've behaved . ’
35 If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family .
36 I could barely conceal my satisfaction – I felt we had ‘ arrived ’ .
37 The , for example , where I worked I had to bale out you know in the morning about thirty pails of water , you know before I could even see my footboard .
38 As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line .
39 I could just see my hand when I held it out .
40 I could just see my face in it .
41 I could just imagine my father jumping up and down on this argument , this need for meaning , for faith .
42 I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’
43 I could only make my exit .
44 Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines
45 At lunch I was sad and subdued , and I could hardly face my mother 's and father 's happy faces , or the rather more knowing glances of Aunt Lyallie , who I later discovered had put my mother wise to many things .
46 I felt I could hardly lift my arm to comb my hair it was such an effort ; but most of all I got so depressed knowing everything was piling up and I was n't doing anything about it , and soon I would n't be able to .
47 I could hardly contain my excitement .
48 My dear , I could hardly keep my patience .
49 I could hardly believe my luck .
50 With the election less than a fortnight away , I could hardly believe my luck .
51 I could never forget my grandfather .
52 I could never turn my back on our home .
53 As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him .
54 I could still do my job , but my heart was n't in the day-to-day scramble for the latest pictures .
55 ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public .
56 ‘ It was very comfortable , ’ he surprisingly recorded , ‘ and I could always keep my eye on the Prime Minister . ’
57 How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers .
58 I waved frantically , but this time I could actually sense my body temperature falling rapidly with the physical exertion .
59 But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around ( it 's very flexible you know ) ; even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together .
60 At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories .
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