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Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	My views affect me as a person .
2	I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light .
3	I strain my ears to hear it , like distant music ; my eyes see it as a very bright light very far away .
4	My eyes fail me like every other part of my body . ’
5	The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness .
6	I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open .
7	At the end of the afternoon 's events the Head makes an emotional speech praising my athleticism , my versatility , my stamina and my humility as he kneels at my feet to present me with the ‘ School 's Outstanding Sportsperson of the Decade ’ award .
8	My senses took me through the bars that confined me .
9	I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris .
10	A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin .
11	And er I never remember er my parents painting anything in the house at all .
12	The house used to belong to my grandfather , who let my parents use it as a holiday home , ’ Ashley explained , ‘ but he died last winter and left it to me .
13	My parents accused me of the murder of my brother .
14	I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique .
15	My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone .
16	My studies lead me to the conclusion that the Biro , as with many other forms of ‘ inanimate object ’ , hates its role in life .
17	‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite the fact that my players ran themselves into the ground .
18	‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground .
19	This is what my friends tell me from a side view .
20	This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’
21	The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ .
22	‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house .
23	My fins hit me in the chest .
24	‘ For one thing , not one of my nurses knew anything about the project ; you 've kept them almost completely in the dark !
25	What happened was , one of my students wrote something in an examination essay and it got me fired .
26	Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion .
27	Her sons kissed her on the forehead .
28	But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make .
29	Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband .
30	At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest .