Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I 'm going to go off my head . |
| 2 | I tried to forget about it and to go about my routine day as usual . |
| 3 | I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’ |
| 4 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 5 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 6 | ‘ I was on my way to see about my trunks , ’ I started . |
| 7 | They 're going to go for my kids , or Chrissie , I just know it . |
| 8 | Because they said , Ah fine I know where to go for my meat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She 's one of the old ladies I go to see for my Community Care Course . |
| 13 | It would be extremely tedious to go through my life chronologically ; therefore I shall break off , from time to time . |
| 14 | I like things to go through my hands ; things are transitory , ideas are emetic — it 's enough to get them out . |
| 15 | I suppose my shadow calculated that I would soon come in off the streets , or perhaps he was using the opportunity to go through my baggage . |
| 16 | I 've got to go through my advisers and put it before the other board members in the proper manner . ’ |
| 17 | I have Phil to thank for my first break on the Cutters . |
| 18 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 19 | I want to arrange for my body to be closed up in a transparent plastic parallelepiped ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ The commission will act to all intents and purposes like a court within Mr McTear 's front room , and this step will allow the case to continue after my client 's death . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If I tell — they will kill Liam and point out that he 's had to suffer for my stubborn principles . |
| 22 | Vic told me I had to suffer for my art . |
| 23 | I am covered in scars ; I do have to suffer for my art ? |
| 24 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 25 | What will they want to know about my home ? |
| 26 | What will they want to know about my health ? |
| 27 | He gave me a hard stare , which said all that I needed to know about my fate if he failed to beat me . |
| 28 | I thought you might like to know about my four-year-old rescued Rottweiler , Penny . |
| 29 | But , I suppose you , only want to know about my wife . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I should be allowed to know about my inclinations now . |