Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely you are not suggesting that my daughter — ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’ |
| 3 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 4 | I still reserve the right at any time to doubt the solutions furnished by the modulor , keeping intact my freedom which must depend upon my feelings rather than my reason . |
| 5 | In 1987 when I attended the Intermediate Command Course at the Police Staff College with some thirty-five other superintendents from around Britain , I found that my Ph.D . |
| 6 | , ring up the and say sorry my dog ate it . |
| 7 | This little brute Matilda or whatever her name is has stink-bombed my study ! |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to struggle all my life for nothing . |
| 9 | I 'd buy all my CDs here , especially if they were a wee bit cheaper ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Meaning that I 'll need all my strength in the next few days . |
| 11 | I 'll treat him as someone who needs all my sympathy and understanding . |
| 12 | He 's so good that I 've ended up basing all my choreography around him . ’ |
| 13 | In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’ |
| 14 | Do I really enjoy all my exercise ? |
| 15 | Wilkinson admitted : ‘ I am keeping all my options open and I have been thinking about whether I should play Rocastle . |
| 16 | He has all my sizes . |
| 17 | Erm , but those , that has all my appointments on , and I use a very simple system of crossed hatching when I am away from my base for , for the bulk of the day . |
| 18 | Being my step-sister does n't give you a God-given right to know all my business . ’ |
| 19 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 20 | I have kept myself fit all my life , avoiding infections , abstaining from drink , tobacco and hazard-ous pursuits . |
| 21 | I 'll pack All my courage and my |
| 22 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 23 | Er might do it , oh that 's very kind of you , you 're dusting all my kitchen cupboards ? do the drawers as well |
| 24 | The hostel could be tolerated for a month or so and during the interlude I would concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere more permanent to live . |
| 25 | I have an extremely voracious moth in my wardrobe which is gradually devouring all my clothes ! |
| 26 | I want to pass all my exams , I want my mum and dad to be proud of me . |
| 27 | Second , I had to pass all my examinations with top grades . |
| 28 | It may be an awareness of my married status ( of which my colleagues often jokingly remind me ) , or a way of squaring all my activities with the ethos of the KZ , or a simple boredom with the female face , but now my thrusts of love — so sudden , so hurried , so helpless , so hopeless — are exclusively directed at the source of universal sustenance and fruition . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd willingly plunge all my earnings into the estate , but I suppose it would be a drop in the ocean . ’ |
| 30 | And Glotz has for many years now supervised all my recordings . |