Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | simply to shut off my brain to enable me to sleep , much the same as the |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |
| 4 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I did a lot of my chord studying I used a Gibson 175 , and a cello guitar will obviously make your music go in a certain direction . |
| 7 | The insanity of my reality made me feel stupid and powerless . |
| 8 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 9 | The nurses turned me on my side and the doctor put a needle into a vein behind my knuckle to make me relax . |
| 10 | ‘ Not with my eyes closed I do n't . ’ |
| 11 | The sinking feeling I get when I fold it up again and stuff the envelope under my bed makes me realise how much I wanted it to come up with some answers . |
| 12 | She saw me looking at her and thrusting the bag under my nose invited me to take a pinch . |
| 13 | It 's not expensive to live here and I earn enough from my lessons to keep me going . |
| 14 | Nowhere in my diary do I mention this physical discomfort , and even now I ca n't remember it as amounting to pain , although I do remember the school doctor drawing the matron 's attention to the extensive bruising on the softer parts of my body . |
| 15 | A jolt of pain in my head made me wonder whether it was such a good idea . |
| 16 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 17 | never in my life had I done anything like this before . |
| 18 | Never in my life have I seen social security payments abound unless they were for a pound of flesh . |
| 19 | " Never in my life have I questioned an appointment , " she said , weighing every word . |
| 20 | Before the editors of trade magazines start sticking sub-editors ' spikes in my effigy let me explain that their publications perform a valuable function and are extremely interesting to their readers . |
| 21 | At this stage in my Mespot tour I had a bit of luck . |
| 22 | I have a ringing in my ears like I 've been smacked around the head . |
| 23 | There was a wet fish shop just there and in my eagerness to escape I darted in . |
| 24 | I recoiled so much I thought I was going to topple backwards but the cable round my legs kept me anchored to the beer keg . |
| 25 | As soon as she opened her flat door to my hammering knock I knew something was wrong . |
| 26 | I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the |
| 27 | Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours . |
| 28 | We 'd be sitting or standing watching the traffic go by , Dawn alternately flapping about desperately trying to get away and perching on my glove letting me stroke and soothe her . |
| 29 | Then , placing my hands on my hips like I had seen Mum do many times when in a– temper , I looked her straight in the eyes . |
| 30 | I 'm beginning to put my life together again now and I 'm concentrating on my riding to help me get through . |