Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I change out of my pyjamas into them to write |
| 2 | I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the |
| 3 | I shall expect you always to be dressed by dinner time and whomsoever I bring home to my table you 'll be in readiness to receive . |
| 4 | PAMELA : I fear only for my heart . |
| 5 | As I sit here with my cardigan sleeves rolled up , I reflect on the two alternatives — having them unrolled and falling over the typewriter keys or ignoring the instructions and making the sleeves a more suitable length in the first place . |
| 6 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |
| 7 | I feel , as I sit here in my own office , with my own files in front of me , a physical sense of shrinking inside my skin . |
| 8 | I sit down at my desk and write a letter of accusations to Crilly . |
| 9 | I sit back in my chair , full of anticipation and confidence , and barely even notice the chewings and scurryings of rats in the rushes . |
| 10 | I sit there in my white coat , with my reflex hammer , tuning forks , small flashlight , tongue blades , pins , needles . |
| 11 | Quite ob quite obviously cos I say so in my evidence . |
| 12 | I have really bad nightmares of someone pursuing me , or a really big landslide coming down on me , and I race out of my bed and run , run far away and find something to defend myself with , like a candelabra or a bottle . |
| 13 | I get to act out all the horrors and pressures of fame , and some of the things that I worry about in my own life are purged . |
| 14 | Not while I hold on to my cottage , there is n't . |
| 15 | Yet one of the sights I treasure most in my memory is of a French river in the Cévennes where black-veined whites in their hundreds were floating among falling poplar down in the dappled sunlight . |
| 16 | It 's not expensive to live here and I earn enough from my lessons to keep me going . |
| 17 | And I cut back on my intake , |
| 18 | For my first as I put down in my erm blurb before , will be to meet you in small or large groups throughout the Euro constituency , and see what you can do to help me and to convince you erm that I will be a a good campaign leader , a good candidate . |
| 19 | The laibon 's son , paramat , and I walk back to my camp . |
| 20 | I walk back to my car with friends , talking all the while , and fumbling my keys in door , fail to open it . |
| 21 | Thus , I speak even of my theatrical experience in terms of reference to printed texts — witnessing a quarto Hamlet or the uncut Folio text . |
| 22 | I climb up to my room from the small courtyard by a steep wooden ladder and stoop through the doorway , as I must through all the doorways here . |
| 23 | Excuse me while I dive back into my piles of daft statistics . |
| 24 | I look forward to my husband coming home in the middle of the day — it makes a break , breaks the day up . |
| 25 | When I am awake , I look forward to my death , to the day when I shall be with them . |
| 26 | Armed with your support I look forward to my first year in that position , to sorting the Party 's problems . |
| 27 | I look up to my brother , what he says goes with me , so that really hurt . |
| 28 | you tell me as I look in on my way to bed |
| 29 | As I look out of my window — the scene is as interesting to me as a Canaletto — I see the clouds suddenly begin to rise o at high speed , like a milkshake being drawn up a straw , the top layers , the fluffy stuff , going last . |
| 30 | When I look back at my golden youth all I can remember is people trying to hang poor old Shallot . |