Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see that my character had not improved since I had heard about my expectations . |
| 2 | Herbert was abroad , on business for Clarrikers , and there would have been nobody to look after me , if Joe had not heard about my illness and come to London to nurse me . |
| 3 | I suppose that many of you will have heard about my motoring experience a few weeks ago as I was travelling from Winfrith to Harwell . |
| 4 | ‘ A few of them actually ASKED if I would mind having the clothes ripped off my back . |
| 5 | I ca n't , because I ducked down as low as I could , controlling Armstrong 's wheel with just my left hand , the injured right tucked between my legs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " I am living in fear of my internal organs , " said the man pressed between my shoulder blades . |
| 9 | Georgie , Marion , Paul , Linda — the children 's faces floated through my mind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've already posted off my suggestions : it 's either Charlie Drake , Seth from Emmerdale Farm or Noel Edmonds . |
| 13 | By this stage , I was nine years old , and physically very well developed for my age . |
| 14 | Now I 've fallen for my stepfather , Jim . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 17 | It 's fallen off my stick ! |
| 18 | ‘ What 's wrong with being regarded as my girl ? ’ |
| 19 | May the vilest nastiness be uttered after my humble name |
| 20 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 21 | Are they designed for my child 's safety , security of mind and social training , rather than just for my convenience ? |
| 22 | When I reached Denis 's , I 'd almost forgotten about my brassy hair . |
| 23 | She appeared to have forgotten about my not going to the funeral but that was before she started to lose the steps to the attic , so to speak , so it just meant that she chose to not mention it . |
| 24 | ‘ I was in the sitting room and I could have been killed if they had come through my side , ’ she said . |
| 25 | After my first look at root directory I almost ran to the garden shed for my gardening tools . |
| 26 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 27 | I 've torn off my bit . |
| 28 | I was asked why I had come about my father , why he was in prison , and many other questions . |
| 29 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 30 | It , it depends on , on your individual circu , if your sister has a baby for you , she 's unlikely to say that I would be recompensed for my loss of earnings . |