Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] my " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And not even think of me on my birthday ? ’ mused Juliet .
2 At the photo of me with my thumbs
3 He listens , he listens to it afterwards and he goes no I ca n't understand , well now I can , now I can understand why they take the piss out of me for my voice .
4 the way Jimmy goes , Jimmy goes understand why you always take the piss out of me for my voice
5 ‘ She has all the best of me without my bad side , and if she were yours , it would almost seem as if we were not separated by death .
6 Then I heard my aunt remark of me to my father , without making any attempt to lower her voice , ‘ She 's going to be stout — just like Dolly ’ ( Dolly was my mother ) .
7 And they did n't expect very much of me from my school reports and I thought , well if they did n't expect I you know I was n't capable of it .
8 Right when it was pitch dark , yeah , I was half , I was still pissed and I was half asleep and you were p taking the piss out of me behind my back about that .
9 They took good care of me in my childhood .
10 She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat .
11 I am quite clear what is expected of me in my job .
12 Because they 're staring at me in front of me in my diary .
13 I have a , a little formal statement which I 've composed which says a very strong thing , and then I have you know , just a , a , quite a lot of little pieces of information that I 'm composing so that people will get a , a view of me in my little journey .
14 I thought of them as my property . ’
15 I have met many of them at my advice surgery , and I will weep no tears over the demise of a tax that had no progressive element and which sometimes militated against people on low incomes .
16 I met a few of them at my own destination , Cushendall , where the Co Antrim fleadh was in full swing , amid glorious sunshine .
17 Pc Birtwell , 44 , an officer for six years , said last night : ‘ I went for one of them with my stick .
18 She said something along the lines of : ‘ It 's all very worrying — I 've got a lot of them on my staff , you know — and I wonder if the Government is doing enough . ’
19 The Liverpool star , who will represent Britain in the May contest , said : ‘ I might even put some of them on my new album . ’
20 I 've got some more of these sheets if anybody wants them There are a lot of them on my door , and not very many of them are taken away .
21 At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties .
22 I only wanted to tell you I 'm really interested in the Foundling babies and I hope to visit some of them for my husband .
23 It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts .
24 On my life , I ordered one of them for my friend 's daughter for her birthday and it was ten pounds that 's two ninety nine .
25 ‘ I have kept at least a score of them during my life here , till each decayed in turn .
26 I have a picture of them in my mind — tilled from the edge of the sea to the boundary fence , a tidy , changing pattern of ordered use .
27 I never heard of these scripts again and they were never broadcast to my knowledge , but , for whatever interest they may have , I included one of them in my collection of short stories , scripts and plot summaries under the title ‘ Bits and Pieces ’ to be published one day .
28 ‘ I pay enough for the poor with my taxes , ’ he said , ‘ so why should n't I be able to make use of them in my work ?
29 He 's a professional complainer — I 've encountered hundreds of them in my time .
30 I know that because I grow at least a dozen of them in my allotment .
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