Example sentences of "my [noun] [conj] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And that is n't what I risked my skin and yours for . ’ |
2 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
3 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
4 | Relatives always made disparaging remarks about me ‘ breaking the chain' of five boys , but consoled my parents that they at least had a girl to look after them in their old age . |
5 | Beside it is a small round table on which can be seen a photograph of my wife and me with our three elder children ; then there is an armchair also with a long seat and a dark-blue dog bed for our two spaniels beside another table with books and magazines . |
6 | In effect , my absence provided you with extra time . |
7 | And the Punch cartoon depicting BRITISH LIPMAN on the side of a Telecom van , and the newspaper hoarding which stopped my daughter and me in our tracks after a visit to the acupuncturist in Baker Street . |
8 | ‘ But … why has n't she said anything to Tom , my ma or me about it ? ’ |
9 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
10 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |
11 | So here is mystery with a vengeance — we seem to have the attractive idea that Christ died for you and me , he went to the utmost limit for us , he gave everything away , and in some mysterious and tantalizing fashion he took my sin and yours upon himself , but we can not say to whom the price was paid ! |
12 | ‘ Smuggling my brother and me into the Butcher Building . ’ |
13 | In the 1950s it was rung by my mother to summon my brother and me to meals . |
14 | ‘ I was only a small child when my parents sent my brother and me to an orphanage . |
15 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |