Example sentences of "that i [verb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position . |
| 2 | If , for example , I call my mother' brother 's son by the same term that I apply to my mother 's brother , the implication is that I share a common relationship with both . |
| 3 | Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them . |
| 4 | Lying in bed , looking at the stiff poses in the pictures , I began to want to see the living reality — and the only reality to begin with for me was the singing that I heard through my sickroom window . |
| 5 | Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then . |
| 6 | The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism . |
| 7 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 8 | It was a performance that I keep in my memory , and am so pleased that MK remembers the playing . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's my boat that I made with my two hands , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’ |
| 11 | One of the first things that I noticed in my workplace was that there was an entrenched , hostile division between Black and white colleagues . |
| 12 | I could smell the citronella that I put on my skin to ward off the mosquitoes and feel the breeze beginning to rise from the river . |
| 13 | The six criteria of positive development that I use in my own research ( linkages , retained foreign currency earnings , genuine technology transfer , upgrading of personnel , conditions of work and equitable distribution ) are one way to tackle this problem . |
| 14 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 15 | Still a device was invented to cover up the disappearance of an old landmark ; and at the accession of Her present gracious Majesty , she was unlawfully proclaimed by a new title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , subsequently legalised by the Royal Titles Act 1953 , against which I am proud to recall that I protested in my place in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | I sent you the articles that I had in my scrapbook from Colesfield on October tenth , I am looking now at the ones from Gdynia , Poland , on October ninth and its headlines Port Libs hit Poland and Prussia with vast damage caused by wrecker raid on four targets deep in the East , Gdynia , Danzig , German plane plants are blasting great weekend blitz , Bremen and Hanover get it again . |
| 17 | ‘ In the cold light of day it seems incredible that I toppled to my knees in so abject a manner . |
| 18 | She has go to bad that I worry about my fingers when I carry out water changes . |
| 19 | The man walking towards England , towards our curious eyes , and towards the warm winter overcoat that I held in my hands , was not Flaubert the writer , though he had a similar grey moustache , two double chins , and not much hair . |
| 20 | ‘ It has helped me see more than ever that I compete for my country and always will . ’ |
| 21 | Everything that I learned during my childhood in my village has remained sharply in my mind . |
| 22 | I remind her that , following President Yeltsin 's recent visit and the welcome changes in connection with what is a hugely large arsenal of nuclear weapons , the top priority of proliferation at present is to ensure that we take action in the ways that I described in my answer . |
| 23 | It is at this point that I slip from my pedestal of polite insouciance . |
| 24 | I 've put a list up erm for the things that I want for my birthday . |
| 25 | I 've not been allowed out of the wards , except under escort , that I owe to my father , I know . |
| 26 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |
| 27 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 28 | This does n't mean that I have slopped believing , but only that I believe in my own way . |
| 29 | Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them . |
| 30 | The sureness with which I carry out all motions on this return journey , the knowledge that is part of the recognition , overwhelmingly convinces me , in the dream and on waking , that I have often , often been there , although , as you know , I never lived in the country as a child , and all the lore that I needed for my little articles on Nature was garnered later from various sources . |