Example sentences of "[pers pn] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thou art my Son , my beloved ; on thee my favour rests ( Mark 1:11 ) . |
| 2 | Yet while her stirring rendition of World in Union , the tournament 's theme song , remained faithful to the tune that inspired it , I Vow To Thee My Country , it was hardly surprising that it was decided to alter the words . |
| 3 | Of thee , my dear one , thee my daughter … |
| 4 | ‘ Besides , th'know mine now , and I 'll tell thee my trade like thee asked . |
| 5 | COUNTESS : I can no otherwise strike dead they bold presumption than to show thee my scorn and anger thus . |
| 6 | They think the matter of their sex makes them my superior when any fool can see … ’ |
| 7 | The official told them my story , which my robot repeated . |
| 8 | After the doctor had finished , I told them my story , and about Ben Gunn . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , give them my love when you see them . |
| 10 | As I hold them my hair crowds |
| 11 | I showed them my birth certificate , but they still did n't believe me . |
| 12 | And I would n't give them my name . |
| 13 | but that the , the , these are some things I 've got , you do n't have to answer them my name is Emily what is your name ? , how are you ? , |
| 14 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 15 | I did n't give them my mouse , er , I gave 'em the mouse but no joy-stick . |
| 16 | ‘ I told them my brother could be lying dead somewhere and they said they did n't care and that I was mucking them about , ’ said 18-year-old Joanne , of Stoneleigh , Surrey , yesterday . |
| 17 | If you could just hold on to them my son wid pick them up when he 's hame . |
| 18 | Give them my command to let the boy win his spurs , for if God has so ordained it , I wish the day to be his and the honour to go to him and those in whose charge I have placed him . ’ |
| 19 | They they they used to call them my autumn leaves er |
| 20 | As soon as I stiffened them my stroke improved . ’ |
| 21 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 22 | So much so that she decided to call the police and give them my registration number , just in case I made a habit of kerb-crawling . |
| 23 | get them my key up |
| 24 | ‘ I take them my place . |
| 25 | It was n't the nuns , Harriet , who gave me my guilt , my conscience ( do you have a conscience , Harriet ? ) . |
| 26 | But what worries me my friend is that that erm |
| 27 | But leave me my love-life . ’ |
| 28 | It was eight hours of solid drinking which lost me my charity , my film company , my reputation and my dignity . |
| 29 | He turned suddenly to Julian , standing silent and attentive in the shadows , and said to her , with a hand outstretched : ‘ Hand me my cloak ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Smith gave me my head with coaching at Bootham Crescent and Roker Park . |