Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 2 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |
| 3 | In his satirical cabaret days , Nichols used to do a sketch with Elaine May about a Jewish mother 's shock at her son 's choice of profession : ‘ Can you imagine me saying , ‘ There goes my son the nurse ’ ? ’ |
| 4 | Now Nichols 's mother could say , ‘ There goes my son the movie director . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm seeing my friend the video company owner today . |
| 6 | Well it 's absolutely horrendous , they 'll think my God the British class system is completely |
| 7 | But you must think my displeasure the heaviest thing that can befall you . |
| 8 | ‘ No one understands my speedboat the way your brother does . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd broken my heel the week before whilst soloing at Pex Hill ! |
| 10 | Catching my eye the young medic grinned and gave a thumbs-up sign . |
| 11 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 12 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 13 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 14 | My knuckles and hands were a mass of windblown cuts and boils which meant that whenever I clenched my fists the gashes opened . |
| 15 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 16 | I once told my brother the comic after my father had read it to me earlier . |
| 17 | I deeply resent Michael Rowan-Robinson 's insinuation that I have been ‘ disreputable ’ in my use of a review article by Bernard Carr and Martin Rees in writing my book The Accidental Universe ( Review , 20 January , p 186 ) . |
| 18 | When from the kitchen window I had seen my brother-in-law the councillor walking slowly down the path arm-in-arm with Mrs McLaren , it was the strangest , the most unlikely sight I could possibly have imagined . |
| 19 | I wo n't give my children the satisfaction of burying me until there is only one of them left to perform the ceremony . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 21 | When my mother separated from my father in April 1981 I wanted to afford my father the security of a home so I entered into a verbal agreement to allow him to stay in the house during his lifetime and described this as a life tenancy on form ‘ Stamps L(A)451 ’ . |
| 22 | Strathbeg is one of the least known and yet most delightful lochs in Scotland and I was aware of its reputation , having discovered it whilst researching my book The Trout Lochs of Scotland , although I had never fished there . |
| 23 | You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that . |
| 24 | ‘ And what is troubling my lord the Prince of Aberffraw and Lord of Snowdon ? ’ |
| 25 | I turned my face the other way . ’ |
| 26 | Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit . |
| 27 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 28 | Give my Jenny back her wages Give my Jenny the house Then get out of here . |
| 29 | I normally get my tickets the next day , or in two days . |
| 30 | I normally get my tickets the next day , or in two days . |