Example sentences of "[pron] every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nice people in uniforms took care of my every whim . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm hoping to meet a man rich enough to keep me in comfort so I can indulge my every whim and fancy and give up work for good , ’ she said drily . |
| 3 | Slowly but surely they began to fill my every thought , until it reached the stage where I could no longer cope with daily life . |
| 4 | take my every day . |
| 5 | ‘ You are everything I want and need , you fulfil my every fantasy , and I do n't want to even think of life without you . |
| 6 | ‘ You have my every sympathy . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll obey my every order . |
| 8 | He seemed so attentive , so clued in to my every word , that I suddenly found the confidence to go on . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think I 've let my tongue slip once with those creatures of yours marking my every word ? |
| 10 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 11 | Well-bribed assassins — my uncle s creatures I doubt not — were marking my every move , ready to meet any show of force with greater force . |
| 12 | Then he bent very cautiously , watching my every move , and put the tray down in the doorway . |
| 13 | All my life I 've had brothers breathing down my neck , watching my every move , checking on who I 'm going out with and what time I 'm getting home . |
| 14 | Last night I returned from a stint on the 1990 ITV Telethon , with steam issuing from my every pore . |
| 15 | As far as I was concerned he could have my every piece of silver if he just allowed me to gaze at his daughter . |
| 16 | I 'm probably not compassionate or anything , I bet I 'm a real bastard inside and do n't care for anyone , but I fucking hated treading up those stairs to Mum , especially with Jean at the bottom watching my every step . |
| 17 | ‘ How could I even think of it when you dog my every step ? |
| 18 | Agrippa gave me a safe conduct and the Lord d'Aubigny arranged for moss troopers to guard my every step . ’ |
| 19 | I remained seated on my mule , uncomfortably aware that my every gesture and expression was being carefully observed . |
| 20 | Why do you seem to feel it 's absolutely imperative to dog my every footstep ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Once we are wed , I will whisper some magic incantation into her ear and turn this — this bambina into a woman who will eagerly obey my every command . |
| 22 | ‘ Master , why do you misrepresent my every action ? |
| 23 | I 'm not answerable to you for my every movement . |
| 24 | He adds that ‘ Robin and Barbara Crossland and also Angela Goncalves of the Ocean Club attended to my every need during my stay there . |
| 25 | I threw the dice and almost my every throw beat his until Wolsey , standing behind the king 's chair , gave a sign for the trumpeters to blow and the game ended . |
| 26 | I gave my every waking hour to that club unless I was doing something else . |
| 27 | They are what we are telling ourselves every hour of the day , year in and year out . |
| 28 | The answers involve asking ourselves every time we are ill , what benefits that illness brings us . |
| 29 | As there is no Fourth Division , it would mean playing ourselves every week . |
| 30 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |