Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] took my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 2 | I just took my napkin , filled it with all the coins I had won and tied the corners into a knot . |
| 3 | And then last night I just took my stuff and knocked myself out instead . |
| 4 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 5 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 6 | Last time I practically took my thumb off and apparently she does n't trust me not to do it again . |
| 7 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 8 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 9 | I know that in Beirut I simply took my child through the checkpoints and delivered her at the school gates . |
| 10 | ‘ I never took my eye off it . |
| 11 | But when they took me they also took my bicycle , and I ca n't live without it . |
| 12 | After a moment he gently took my hand and moved it away , saying nothing . |
| 13 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 14 | I do n't know why or how it worked but it certainly took my mind off my voice . |