Example sentences of "my [noun] [conj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society . |
| 2 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 3 | ‘ This breaks my heart and makes me very , very angry . ’ |
| 4 | It is often impossible to say what moves you in a poem ; somehow in this poem there is something that touches my heart and links me in sympathy to this Bolivian poet whom I shall never meet . |
| 5 | Now I need you to back up my story and put me in the clear . |
| 6 | Again they swallowed my story and gave me a year 's conditional discharge . |
| 7 | She strokes my hair and soothes me like a baby . |
| 8 | This guy sitting behind me started playing with my hair and touching me up . |
| 9 | Crilly cups my face in his hands , strokes my hair and kisses me long upon the lips . |
| 10 | Place a sundial over my grave and let me be forgotten . ’ |
| 11 | I thought I might find some reasonable woman who would understand my case and accept me . ’ |
| 12 | It swam straight into my chest and bowled me over , thank God it swam on but the adrenalin was flowing so all I could think about was what sort of picture I 'd got . |
| 13 | A woman would come from time to time and take my money and bring me clothes and food . |
| 14 | ‘ Certainly , ’ he said , as if he had never seen me before , took my money and gave me a ticket . |
| 15 | ‘ Basically they are simple — you obey my wishes and prevent me being too overworked — ’ |
| 16 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 17 | If it were , the day would come when the man behind the shining table lamp would toss a fountain pen in my direction and tell me to sign a piece of paper , and I would say , what the hell , why not ? |
| 18 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 19 | The metal strip at the side of the card holds an electrical charge — like a piece of recording tape ; this machine reads that , to make sure it 's of the current pattern , while at the same time photographing me and my tag and weighing me . |
| 20 | And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’ |
| 21 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 22 | She threw her arms round my neck and kissed me . |
| 23 | That seemed to have been what he had in mind , as he put a paw on the back of my neck and bent me forward until my face was squished into the table top . |
| 24 | I cried after the girl had gone and he seeing my distress and I explaining I feared your anger he put his arms around my neck and comforted me and said he was sure his real mother could not but love her sister and believe she had acted for the best . |
| 25 | Lewis stood by my side and eyed me up and down . |
| 26 | He promised to forward my mail and wished me luck . |
| 27 | Give 'em all my autograph that write me . ’ |
| 28 | Sergeant Moustaine punched me in the face , stuffed my shitty underpants in my mouth and ordered me to run around the parade ground holding my kitbag above my head . |
| 29 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 30 | ‘ Just take these other duties off my shoulders and give me a day a week for the next year to attend a decent training course so that I can master it , and I 'm yours . ’ |