Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me expose my bottom to him and he whipped me . |
| 2 | ( Let me answer my own question . |
| 3 | I 'll recruit somebody to help me service my client bank , because it 's better to have fifty percent of something than fifty percent of nothing . |
| 4 | And that we actually op adopted a b a modern sensible er , reasonable attitude towards all living creatures and that we do today vote to ban fox hunting it is anachronistic as I said earlier , it is not necessary it actually causes harm , not only does it cause harm to foxes , but at least in one case , which is sufficient for me to continue my support for the ban damage to the people in my area . |
| 5 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 6 | Manchester-based Mark , at No. 19 with I Found Heaven , reveals : ‘ My mum did n't want me wasting my time trying to be a pop star and I came very close to quitting the group . |
| 7 | Just as well the control panel 's on the outside , Bernice told herself , saves me wasting my energies on a futile attempt to crack the combination . |
| 8 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How can you expect me to risk my boys ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 11 | I would not like to contribute to that , although I suppose that Mr Smith 's vicious tax might just persuade me to brace my shoulders and cry ‘ traps away ’ . |
| 12 | Just for once , let me make my own decision . |
| 13 | planning for you but what I can show you is some sketches which the gentleman who bought the plot at Grey Lane brought to show me asked my opinion . |
| 14 | You tried to stop me seeing my family , ’ she said with a frown . |
| 15 | ‘ Well ’ — Lizzie stopped — ‘ I do n't suppose he 'll object to me seeing my grandchild bathed . ’ |
| 16 | Mum encourages me to like my face without make-up . |
| 17 | Grace commented , ‘ Robbie is a lovely dog and I could n't give him up now , but I would never have dreamt that rescuing a dog could cause me to lose my home . |
| 18 | You want me to disrupt my harvest and put my daughter in danger — and yet , according to Keith , the terrorists in your house were saying that their deadline was Friday . |
| 19 | Having said that , I used to do an act which culminated in me tucking my genitalia between my legs , bending over and shouting ‘ Bulldog ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Would you like me to wear my dogcollar in court ? ’ |
| 21 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 22 | ‘ I lay down for a rest after lunch and was about to drift into sleep when there was a definite pop inside me , which made me think my waters had broken . |
| 23 | Poppa says I can go to London or Paris and have them make my trousseau if I want . ’ |
| 24 | So it was in this instance ; that is to say , my receiving the letter from Miss Kenton , containing as it did , along with its long , rather unrevealing passages , an unmistakable nostalgia for Darlington Hall , and — I am quite sure of this — distinct hints of her desire to return here , obliged me to see my staff plan afresh . |
| 25 | Why , that would be enough to take me to see my nephew Tim and his children at Gridford ! |
| 26 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 27 | And my , my granddad was telling me to see my eyes . |
| 28 | Please do n't make me eat my words |
| 29 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel like a circus animal ’ — Robin-Anne ignored my disclaimer — ‘ because you 're all expecting me to perform my antics , and I 'm not sure I can do it . ’ |