Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 3 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 4 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 5 | But there was another deeper factor that endeared me to that little derelict church at Knowlton and slotted it into my spiritual pattern even tighter than my fictional one . |
| 6 | Made a funnel of the waxed paper , and tipped it into my wide-open mouth . |
| 7 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 8 | Then I made a fist-sized roll of the rest and shoved it into my deepest pocket . |
| 9 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 10 | Lady Diana stayed on and accompanied me on my first walk with the pram out of the garden . |
| 11 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 12 | 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 . |