Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is n't a day that goes past without my missing him . |
| 2 | Er and that 's one thing that stands out in my , of course he died , but the point is at least he died with a fire . |
| 3 | He added ruefully , ‘ I know I should tear that trap apart with my bare hands , but I 'm not as tough as I look . ’ |
| 4 | There 's something in Prince 's voice , an itch that gets right into my pants , a dead centre , a Numan drone . |
| 5 | except there was one , er that fell out with my father once erm Jackie . |
| 6 | It 's unusual for me , an Indian man , vis-à-vis the things that go on around my wife . |
| 7 | Well erm apart from my own experience erm I witnessed , I could n't even m er name as many erm instance of bullying that went on in my regiment erm and for all different kinds of reasons you know . |
| 8 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 9 | And as I say , there was always one I remember that sticks passively in my mind when she came over in one December five weekends on the trot ! |
| 10 | I do hope you can help with a most annoying problem that recurs occasionally to my 86 inch Series One . |
| 11 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |