Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb mod] [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I woke up frightened at having my knife and pill-bottles in the tent in case I should end my life during my night 's sleep . |
| 2 | More tidy illustrations , and better handwriting I could underline my titles . |
| 3 | Then with luck I 'll see my dear wife before midnight . ’ |
| 4 | During my inglorious years as a concert agent I used to reduce my clients to tears by stubbornly refusing to call them ‘ artistes ’ . |
| 5 | Once I 'm absolutely clear in my own mind I 'll put my plan to you — but here 's the encampment and unless I 'm mistaken that 's Boz coming out to meet us . ’ |
| 6 | It was at this point that I left to seek medical help for fear I would split my sides . |
| 7 | He replies : It 's not the type of car I 'd want my wife to take to the shops . |
| 8 | When I was at college I used to bury my nose in a book rather than join one of the societies and almost rebuffed overtures , as I was so scared of not knowing what to talk about . |
| 9 | I drank all the booze I could lay my hands on . |
| 10 | And I tell you that you are Peter , and on this rock I will build my church , and the gates of Hades will not overcome it … |
| 11 | And I say this to you : You are Peter the Rock ; and on this rock I will build my church , and the powers of death shall never conquer it . |
| 12 | As in a great Jesse window , the ancestry of the pope could be portrayed descending from the apostle to whom Christ had said " Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church " . |
| 13 | Christ had entrusted the government of His Church to St Peter and his successors in the words , " Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church " ( Matthew 16 : 18 ) and " I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth , it shall be bound also in heaven " ( Matthew 16 : 19 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If you 'll wash the lettuce I 'll make my special dressing and we could pick some wild sorrel and chop it in at the last minute . ’ |
| 16 | Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’ |
| 17 | Come over to my place I 'll drop my trousers and we can have a quickie ! |
| 18 | The only place I 'll hang my hat is Rome . |
| 19 | That the only place I 'll hang my mitre 's Rome . |
| 20 | From my second-floor vantage point I could see my classmates as they tumbled out into the quad playing catch with my shoes . |
| 21 | In this first article I will retrace my first steps to Rennes-le-Chateau and the beginning of the mystery . |
| 22 | Thoroughly annoyed me because I 'd er every year when I 'd paid my tax I 'd pay my er national insurance and as far I 'm concerned that should 've entitled me . |
| 23 | I was going to ask him for money , there 's a business I could buy my way into , an honest one this time , I 've checked it out . |
| 24 | From his own first forest I shall find my brother once again . |
| 25 | So great was my obsession that I used to wish that one day I would develop my own American accent . |
| 26 | One day I 'll make my mark , |
| 27 | I feel wonderful inside and out , it has been the most productive period in ages , and one day I 'll need my sound nerves more than ever … |
| 28 | Well , he wo n't get away with it , one day I 'll have my revenge . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Go and tell that fox : ‘ I am driving out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow , and on the third day I shall finish my work ! ’ |
| 30 | One day I will have my , own place , but not until I 've got some money behind me . " |