Example sentences of "my [noun] [that] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give 'em all my autograph that write me . ’ |
| 2 | This was absolutely vital if I was ever to ‘ fly ’ her , because it would be the lure of food on my fist that made her come back to me . |
| 3 | There 's nothing about me that erm , excuse me , there 's nothing about my body that is essential to me , nothing about my body that individuates me and that 's why erm I take it one might think that erm I could actually be changed into a different body , so . |
| 4 | ‘ He is held in thrall to the Dark Ireland , but it was not my enchantment that chained him . ’ |
| 5 | And there are other things about my job that remind me too much of Ghostbusters for comfort . |
| 6 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 7 | ‘ I guess it was my name that alerted them ’ , said McIntosh whose grandfather emigrated from Edinburgh to New Zealand after the war . |
| 8 | It 's what you do to my inside that gets me upset . ’ |
| 9 | just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ . |
| 10 | It was the reaction to my answers that interested me most . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's my eyesight that gets me , I ca n't read , my eyes start to water . |
| 12 | In my book that makes you a — ’ |
| 13 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 14 | I like to think it was the gun in my bunker that hit it and forced the pilot to turn tail and dump his bombs . |
| 15 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 16 | It was not my tambourine-playing that worried her , however . |
| 17 | Not really , it does n't annoy me but I know there are some like women older than me in in my office that know they 're not gon na get anywhere because it 's all men . |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't your presence in my office that disturbs me . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's your friendship with my mother that worries me most ! ’ she said stiffly , her cheeks flushing under the cool gaze he returned . |