Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must indeed apologize for my … irritation , ’ he said and produced his most disarming smile . |
| 2 | Maybe I should just stay in my tank , and make the most of the City . |
| 3 | I should just concentrate on my own children . ’ |
| 4 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 5 | And I believe there 's some roadworks at Stafford , I might even get on my teletext and look and see what roadworks are on the M six , I may even give the A A a ring , to say , but it 's all on teletext and this sort of thing . |
| 6 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll now return to my shepherd 's pie . ’ |
| 8 | No doubt , since you fear I 'll maybe return to my painting before my plaster 's dry . ’ |
| 9 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 10 | If I could just get to my room . |
| 11 | My feet were sometimes so painful and swollen that I could only walk with my heels out of my shoes . |
| 12 | And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment . |
| 13 | I could hardly look at my dinner when I got home . |
| 14 | I could never move from my flat — that would be like leaving Percy behind . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I could never survive on my own . ’ |
| 16 | I believe in coil-tapping because I like single coil-type sounds , but all this parallel/series switching is something I 'd probably avoid on my own guitar . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd rather stay under my own roof . |
| 18 | ‘ Really I 'd rather stay in my room . ’ |
| 19 | And we 'd start I 'd just turn with my right hand to join both ends of the rope and then we would be turning again . |
| 20 | I 'd just lie on my back like Marie showed me and float like a fag packet . |
| 21 | I 'd sooner think about my insides than think about my face or my body . |
| 22 | I read one once and it was the best comedy I 'd ever read in my life . |
| 23 | I 'd happily part with my money just to hear the sensational Philadelphia/Ormandy Rachmaninov Vocalise ( ‘ Never mind the meal , just turn down the lights ! ’ ) . |
| 24 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |
| 25 | As Dana Gillespie recalls , ‘ I 'm sure everyone 's got a different version of it , and I really did n't witness any rows , but I would often hear from my assistant who would tell me he 'd just come back from MainMan offices and the door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum , and there were raised voices between David and him in there . |
| 26 | I would often hear from my assistant who now looks after Cher , but at that time was delegated to looking after me , and she would say that she 'd just come back from the MainMan offices and the main office door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum and there were raised voices between him and David in there . |
| 27 | Sturt 's Letter your Lordship will find some interesting remarks upon a species of Gallinule to which I have given the name of Tribonyx ventralis and which I shall shortly publish in my work … ’ |
| 28 | Against that background , I shall certainly talk to my ministerial colleague at the Department of Trade and Industry about how his negotiations with the design museum on further funding are progressing . |
| 29 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 30 | I shall only think of my pleasure in having Father and — and you here , and showing you my house . |