Example sentences of "my [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 2 | The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society . |
| 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 | When I met Jean-Claude I found something in his face , his speech and gestures , that alerted my heart and made it a gift to him . |
| 6 | He seemed very moved by my story and said he intended to write an article about it . |
| 7 | Again they swallowed my story and gave me a year 's conditional discharge . |
| 8 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |
| 9 | I washed and combed and plaited my hair and rubbed my clogs , then I went round and knocked on the door . |
| 10 | I broke my faith and smoked one . |
| 11 | I pulled off my shirt and threw it beyond the woodpile . |
| 12 | I opened my shirt and bared my chest and said , Go ahead . ’ |
| 13 | On my return I developed a pain in my chest and rang my GP . |
| 14 | It swam straight into my chest and bowled me over , thank God it swam on but the adrenalin was flowing so all I could think about was what sort of picture I 'd got . |
| 15 | The receptionist took my money and locked it in a drawer of the desk , then stood up . |
| 16 | ‘ Certainly , ’ he said , as if he had never seen me before , took my money and gave me a ticket . |
| 17 | He glanced down at my notes and touched his own chest , first on the left then on the right as if beginning the sign of the cross : ‘ Both . ’ |
| 18 | The blade glided easily over my skin and left it very smooth . |
| 19 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | ( I put down my knitting and closed my eyes . ) |
| 21 | But when I rubbed the leaves between my fingers and offered her my fingertips to sniff , her reaction was dramatic . |
| 22 | ‘ Stay here , ’ she said and touched my fingers and stroked them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 25 | This morning rang up my sister and said I would visit her tomorrow . |
| 26 | ‘ As it happens , ’ says John , ‘ I have more respect for men like Galbraith who are at least prepared to speak their minds , than for those who smiled in my presence but protested I was ‘ not a local man ’ . ’ |
| 27 | I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half . |
| 28 | she called back to the card players , over her shoulder , and then she put a silky arm round my neck and drew my face down to hers , and fastened those red , red lips on to my mouth and darted her snake-like tongue between my teeth and pressed her whole soft body right up to mine and seemed to squirm with pleasure . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I gritted my teeth and decided it was n't such a one-sided deal after all . |