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Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In hospital I never got off my bed for six weeks .
2	Are you , er , this year was the most I got off my grandma and that as well .
3	Oh , I 'm going to go off my head .
4	I tried to forget about it and to go about my routine day as usual .
5	Herbert was abroad , on business for Clarrikers , and there would have been nobody to look after me , if Joe had not heard about my illness and come to London to nurse me .
6	I suppose that many of you will have heard about my motoring experience a few weeks ago as I was travelling from Winfrith to Harwell .
7	Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night .
8	I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’
9	I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays .
10	I made during my year a number of lasting friendships , some of which have actually turned into professional assistance in different parts of the country , and the fact that people genuinely enjoy meeting each other is shown by the annual reunions which take place , entirely at the personal expense of the individuals , which demonstrate the bond of friendship which our Institute can bring about .
11	I got through my share without much difficulty — I 've always liked sausage and mash .
12	It is normally believed that this arose through my friendship with Harold Wilson .
13	and I fumbling for my key .
14	Yep fumbling for my key .
15	So I applied for my discharge and it was granted .
16	You can tell I really cared about my hair and how I looked — I was so together !
17	You make it sound as though you cared about my welfare ! ’
18	Robin-Anne nodded very earnestly as though she truly cared about my opinion , but her next question showed that she was paying no attention to my inanities .
19	‘ I saw a man dissipating so much affection for his country and his associates ’ , said Hakim , struggling to explain to a New York lawyer his bad case of ‘ love at first sight ’ , ‘ that the radiation of that love — it really immediately penetrated through my system . ’
20	‘ A few of them actually ASKED if I would mind having the clothes ripped off my back .
21	Because they said , Ah fine I know where to go for my meat .
22	Before taking my temperature I was neither allowed to breathe through my mouth for ten minutes nor to take food or drink for half an hour .
23	Even allowing for my interest in all things Cambrian it is a well worthwhile volume which would interest even the least technically proficient enthusiast .
24	Les Stewart , Senior Manager at Oban , who has responsibility for Scarinish , had perceptively anticipated that I would not be over-extended during my stay on the island .
25	Modern Boy , you see , also printed fiction and the Krooms stalk through my head to this day .
26	" I am living in fear of my internal organs , " said the man pressed between my shoulder blades .
27	The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too .
28	Georgie , Marion , Paul , Linda — the children 's faces floated through my mind .
29	Can I explain about my mother ? ’
30	On first seeing All Quiet on the Western Front it was as if the whole cast had marched through my life on their way to Wallsend station and the battlefields of Europe .