Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before taking my temperature I was neither allowed to breathe through my mouth for ten minutes nor to take food or drink for half an hour . |
| 32 | Even allowing for my interest in all things Cambrian it is a well worthwhile volume which would interest even the least technically proficient enthusiast . |
| 33 | Les Stewart , Senior Manager at Oban , who has responsibility for Scarinish , had perceptively anticipated that I would not be over-extended during my stay on the island . |
| 34 | Modern Boy , you see , also printed fiction and the Krooms stalk through my head to this day . |
| 35 | The two books I have chosen to compare for my English open study are ‘ To kill a Mockingbird ’ by Harper Lee and ‘ The Disappearance ’ by Rosa Guy . |
| 36 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 37 | " I am living in fear of my internal organs , " said the man pressed between my shoulder blades . |
| 38 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 39 | Georgie , Marion , Paul , Linda — the children 's faces floated through my mind . |
| 40 | Can I explain about my mother ? ’ |
| 41 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 42 | There is always something delirious about language — the burgeoning , bubbling Remainder that has been left out of the dry official structure comes crashing through my best-formed sentences — so I can feel it speaking through me . |
| 43 | On first seeing All Quiet on the Western Front it was as if the whole cast had marched through my life on their way to Wallsend station and the battlefields of Europe . |
| 44 | I 've already posted off my suggestions : it 's either Charlie Drake , Seth from Emmerdale Farm or Noel Edmonds . |
| 45 | By this stage , I was nine years old , and physically very well developed for my age . |
| 46 | He said : ‘ I fear for my safety . |
| 47 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 48 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he whispered , as if the very bushes concealed royal agents or spies , ‘ I fear for my uncle . ’ |
| 49 | The more he follows me around and goes through my things , the more I feel I have to hide things . |
| 50 | ‘ it goes through my guts . |
| 51 | It is more embarrassing when the copper goes through my pockets . |
| 52 | ‘ I saw him several times a day and he asked about my baby 's father . |
| 53 | Reaching out her arms , Beth enfolded the girl to her , resting her face against Cissie 's fair hair and saying in a softer voice , ‘ Do you remember years ago when you asked about my family ? ’ |
| 54 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 55 | Guess who baby sits for my full-time working daughter ? |
| 56 | She 's one of the old ladies I go to see for my Community Care Course . |
| 57 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 58 | Erm well I bought in two hundred pound on account for my cost to you and then |
| 59 | Now I 've fallen for my stepfather , Jim . |
| 60 | Also , while I have the chance , could I point out that in spite of the FRCC guide crediting me with the first ascent of the bolt ladder route named Fiery Cross ( Dry Grasp ) on Upper Falcon Crag , it has nothing to do with me or B. Henderson , listed as my second . |