Example sentences of "[noun] of my [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 2 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |
| 3 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 4 | The insanity of my reality made me feel stupid and powerless . |
| 5 | The ghost of my son pursued me yet , his translucent image being reflected from the trunk of every tree , so that it sometimes appeared ahead of me as well as on every side . |
| 6 | ‘ Hello , Francis , ’ I said , to have the sound of my voice ground me . |
| 7 | And the full awfulness of my landing hit me in a rush . |
| 8 | Jamie shoved one hand down the back of my cords to keep me from falling on my face , and put the other hand on to my forehead , murmuring something . |
| 9 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 10 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 11 | The promptings of my mind told me to get out of computing and go to live in Shropshire on a small dairy farm making highly profitable specialist products such as goat 's milk yoghurt , sheep 's cheese and traditional butter . |
| 12 | I 'd never enjoyed the media interest and the goldfish-bowl aspect of driving , and while I was grateful to have fans their continual invasion of my privacy got me down . |
| 13 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
| 14 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 15 | As a child I was taken to the dread Hector McDarroch in Glasgow and he did my dental work right up to my teens Friends of my youth tell me that he inspired a similar lasting fear in them , too , and in fact there must be a whole generation of Glaswegians who feel the same . |
| 16 | On account of my grandfather leaving me this house we moved here from Edmonton . |
| 17 | ‘ Couple of my boys tell me you 're trying to earn a piece of that five grand I 'm putting up . |