Example sentences of "my [noun] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 2 | But there is , th th there is the promise in , down in verse eleven , for thus says the Lord God behold I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out . |
| 3 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 4 | ‘ The computers as usual , I suppose , but you 'd better ring my solicitors and ask them to cable you the cash . |
| 5 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 6 | ‘ Stay here , ’ she said and touched my fingers and stroked them . |
| 7 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 8 | The sun became relentlessly hot , adding dehydration to my distress ; I stripped off my pyjamas and restored them to the rucksack . |
| 9 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 10 | I 'll just nip back to my car and fetch them . ’ |
| 11 | Even if you 'd been arrest if I put my eyes and rest them on you . |
| 12 | I closed my eyes and opened them again . |
| 13 | I shut my eyes and opened them again and checked the figure it said I had won . |
| 14 | I parried most of them until we got to their door , then I put a finger to my lips and shushed them . |
| 15 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 16 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 17 | So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more . |
| 18 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 19 | People sometimes look at my pictures and compare them to Emerson 's . |
| 20 | Take my feet and let them be |
| 21 | It is because of this , as well as her own personal charisma and dedication to a cause she really cares about , that Mrs Gellatly 's won stall is a runaway success ( I use the word ‘ runaway ’ deliberately because of the remark by an observant onlooker that he had yet to see Mrs Gellatly walk , and I was immediately , and I think aptly , reminded of the hymn ‘ Take my feet and make them swift and beautiful for Thee ’ ) . |
| 22 | I got to my feet and helped them , and Nell with teasing amusement watched me fold pink napkins into water lilies and said , ‘ Well , well , hidden depths , ’ and I answered , ‘ You should see my dishwashing , ’ which were the sort of infantile surface remarks of something we both guessed might suddenly become serious . |
| 23 | On the porch outside the front door , I kicked off my sandals and pushed them to one side where they joined an already substantial pile of varying styles and sizes . |
| 24 | Slowly , I took my fists out of my pockets and opened them empty . |
| 25 | My screams of terror awoke my parents and brought them rushing in panic to my room . |
| 26 | " I can pick up a horse and rider in my talons and carry them right across the forest . " |
| 27 | And erm well I thought , I 'd well I 'll do my nets and put them up you see Gordon , cos then it 'll be finished with would n't it ? |
| 28 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 29 | When they did n't have a gang to fight they 'd run after me , take off my trousers and hide them in a bush . |
| 30 | Should I hide the flowers behind my back and produce them like a conjuror ? |