Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun] [coord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 60-year-old Bill has hit hard times and said : ‘ I do n't want to sell my memorabilia but at the same time I refuse to sign on the dole — I 'm too proud for that . ’ |
| 2 | A girl from the magazine used to do my shopping and in the end I managed to do it myself , going by taxi and feeling terrified all the time . ’ |
| 3 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 4 | The groups discussed my problems and in the empowering atmosphere it came as quite natural that someone should suggest I start up my own campaign . |
| 5 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 6 | Two of them , which he wrote for Winchester College , ‘ Awake my soul and with the sun ’ and ‘ Glory to Thee , my God this night ’ were to become among the best-known hymns of the Church . |