Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half of them are on my rent-roll anyway . ’ |
| 2 | Though most of them are to my boring straight tastes profoundly unerotic , the process is interesting none the less and I have a new hero : the Earl of Rochester . |
| 3 | I am at her mercy at the moment though I keep her and pay her well and might look with justice for harder work from her , but when I am over my lying-in I will be behind her you can be sure . |
| 4 | I am sure some of the guys in my workshop think I am off my trolley . |
| 5 | Please ( grovel grovel grovel ) help me as I am at my wits ' end with all this shit . |
| 6 | Q I am at my wits end . |
| 7 | He is at his strongest ( and I am at my weakest ) when only six or seven balls remain , when wariness is all . |
| 8 | I pretend I am at my father 's in the spring of my eighth year , staying awake late together , the two of us , miles past bedtime , eating cold takeout spaghetti from the local Italian deli , watching My Man Godfrey on hastily edited late night television , the tiny room dark but for the flicker of a tatty late night screen , our tired eyes bleary but soft , placid , from feeding . |
| 9 | However , the point you have to erm , recall , is that if it 's a conflict between parental investment in a sibling and parental investment in myself , I am twice as closely related to myself as I am to my sibling . |
| 10 | ‘ I am on my own , ’ said Jay . |
| 11 | Thus my impulse to assist the injured animal may be overridden by my reminding myself that I am on my way to get married and am already late . |
| 12 | A further delay before I am on my feet and , in fact , it is now tomorrow . |
| 13 | ‘ I am on my way down to the reprocessing area . |
| 14 | Now I 've found out how hopeless I am on my own … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I am on my way to take up a situation as companion and had to put up here to catch the cross stage tomorrow . ’ |
| 16 | At least down there I am on my own . |
| 17 | While I am on my feet , perhaps I may apologise for referring in an earlier answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North when I meant my hon. Friend the Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth ( Mr. Dickens ) , who made the suggestion . |
| 18 | I am on my feet . |
| 19 | John Major gave a Brixton twirl , and , spinning Hyacinth round , replied , ‘ Ca n't you see how quick I am on my feet ? ’ |
| 20 | here I am on my bed inlaid with lapis |
| 21 | I am on my feet . |
| 22 | Halfway up the hill I turn off , and now I am on my own . |
| 23 | So I 'm spending just exactly as much time on incoming and tea card collections , as erm , as I am on my training . |
| 24 | ‘ I am on my way . ’ |
| 25 | getting attacked in pubs you know like that 's happened to me , being verbally assaulted in the street has happened to me because I am with my lover who is a woman , who publicly I can not show like that love , publicly you know cos oh I 'm scared of violence you know , I like my face the way it is . |
| 26 | I dream that I am with my family , and Elizabeth and Henry . |
| 27 | I am with my son in Egypt . |
| 28 | I am with my mother , stepfather and half brother who are in London for a week . |
| 29 | I would like to know what the charge would have been , whether it is legal to do this , and whether I am within my rights to address mail to my grandson under his old surname . |
| 30 | For example if I am in my late fifties and I have a mother in her early eighties and she dies I will grieve for her . |