Example sentences of "my [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | Yet now , ’ his look was amicable , ‘ you , Miss Kingsdale , with your haughty manner ’ her haughty manner ? ‘ wish me to at once revoke my plans and allow you to ask me endless work-orientated questions . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Basically they are simple — you obey my wishes and prevent me being too overworked — ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The computers as usual , I suppose , but you 'd better ring my solicitors and ask them to cable you the cash . |
| 8 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I caught it , held it in my fingers and put it out of the window . |
| 11 | But when I rubbed the leaves between my fingers and offered her my fingertips to sniff , her reaction was dramatic . |
| 12 | ‘ Stay here , ’ she said and touched my fingers and stroked them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mueller is the oldest , the most successful and probably the best known of all currently active downhillers , so the sight of him volunteering to do the donkey work in a one-horse FIS race was enough to humble me into removing my skis and following him , along with 138 other racers ! |
| 15 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 16 | I gritted my teeth and decided it was n't such a one-sided deal after all . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have to grit my teeth and say I 'm closer to Gyles and Jeffrey . ’ |
| 18 | The sun became relentlessly hot , adding dehydration to my distress ; I stripped off my pyjamas and restored them to the rucksack . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was decided that he should leave next day for London and that I should stop on and finish my baths and meet him in Paris . |
| 22 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
| 23 | Left to my own devices I think I might have shrugged my shoulders and accepted it . |
| 24 | I shrugged my shoulders and answered him in Spanish . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | She puts her hands on my shoulders and steers me to the chair . |
| 27 | When it 's been a bad time and we sulk and grunt and ignore each other , I close my eyes and remember it all . ’ |
| 28 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 29 | Even if you 'd been arrest if I put my eyes and rest them on you . |
| 30 | I closed my eyes and opened them again . |