Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 2 | Several of my scan pictures are backlit against a screen , but mean nothing to my layman 's eye . |
| 3 | One morning I drove out on my rounds with the headlights blazing against the grey curtain ahead , seeing nothing from my tight-shut box . |
| 4 | Doreen said : ‘ I 've been really lucky in that I 've enjoyed everyone of my 34 years with the company . |
| 5 | Would you prepare my bill , please , and send someone for my bags ? |
| 6 | And I want something for my chest . . |
| 7 | Every song on the album contains something of my own experience over the last year but the words are applicable to everyone . ’ |
| 8 | In order to give a sense of an ‘ ethical a priori ’ position , I will at this point in the book say something of my own odyssey . |
| 9 | I caught one at my friend 's wedding last week . |
| 10 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] That such a girl as this , cottage-born , who owes everything to my family and has an absolute dependence upon my pleasure should find me resistible . |
| 11 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 12 | She brings two mugs of hot coffee , places one in my hands , and prods the carrier bag with her foot . |
| 13 | I want everybody off my ship . ’ |
| 14 | Will I know anyone in my former life whom I know in my present one ? |
| 15 | Mr. Wilson : The Hon. Gentleman has not added anything to my previous comment . |
| 16 | I was pleased that he could come , although I did not want him to discover anything about my horrible work . |
| 17 | You do n't know anything about my life . |
| 18 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 19 | I did n't belong to a union , I did n't know anything about my rights then , and I know now that I did n't have any in that particular case … |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't know anything about my past , ’ she cried . |
| 21 | ‘ They do n't really want somebody with my background , even though they say they do . |
| 22 | So far I have said nothing of my family nor of my friends . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I love , I love , ’ she told me over and over , ‘ I put nothing in my letters to you . |
| 24 | ‘ A black eye and a bloody nose would do nothing for my publicity photos . |
| 25 | And he said that I had perceived correctly , that he might do nothing without my goodwill which he would strive to gain , if I would allow it . |
| 26 | ‘ T is true that releasing Stephen will put him back on the throne , but our army can do nothing without my Lord of Gloucester at its head . |
| 27 | Again I told no-one of my profession . |
| 28 | The song writer , the hymn writer reminds us in those tremendous words of that other old hymn , when he says nothing in my hand I bring , simply to your cross I cling . |
| 29 | Sometimes I get embarrassed if I ca n't do summat on my own . |
| 30 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |