Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she reeled off several names and exact addresses and sent me on my way : Kerr ( ‘ Everyone is related to Kerrs ’ ) , MacMillan , Mackinnon , Lowe . |
| 2 | Schobert , Eckardt , Le Grand and Hochbrucker have all brought us their engraved sonatas and presented them to my children . |
| 3 | I obtained five small imported specimens of about 1½″ and placed them in my fish room in a prepared 18″ × 12″ × 12″ tank , leaving them to settle . |
| 4 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 5 | In the end I was again rescued by the housekeeper , Zillah , who ordered away the dogs and helped me to my feet . |
| 6 | I did not know what to say in reply , so I took his hands and held them beside my own , showing first the backs , then the palms , then measuring them one against the other , palm to palm — something the Japanese would often do in comparing their smaller , lighter hands with my grosser ones . |
| 7 | I crushed some of the flowers and rubbed them on my forehead as I 'm told it has an invigorating effect on cabbages and thought it might do the same for me . |