Example sentences of "[prep] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I returned , Jan looked at me knowingly , as if darling Basil had told her about my embarrassing hump , third leg and cocaine habit . |
| 2 | ‘ Slowly I found out more and more about my marvellous father and though my mother — or perhaps because my mother — cherished his memory like that of nobody else , I found out she had lied to me about him . |
| 3 | In truth , I found her rather a pain on the subject and merely parried her constant questions about my job-hunting activities . |
| 4 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 5 | So do n't come back at me with any crap about my specific orders . |
| 6 | He sent two screamers past Oxford keeper Paul Reece and declared : ‘ People have been slagging me off , saying I ca n't play and talking about my disciplinary problems . |
| 7 | When I reached Denis 's , I 'd almost forgotten about my brassy hair . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm potty about my two sons , ’ she says , adding , ‘ I 've always loved children . |
| 9 | And Chris , 13 , said proudly : ‘ I entered because my mum 's always complaining about the pong and my pals at school joke about my smelly feet . |
| 10 | ( There was nothing I could do about my khaki shorts except tighten the wizened Dan Dare belt that Brynley had passed on . ) |
| 11 | But the combined sub-text of my behaviour , which I shall deal with in the next chapter , shows that this was far from being the whole truth about my psychic state . |
| 12 | And of course Judy Egerton , former assistant to Martin Butlin , was invaluable to me in writing about my sporting art paintings , drawings and prints catalogues , along with Dudley Snelgrove , who was also invaluable to me in collecting prints and drawings . |
| 13 | Every year I am faced with a barrage of questions from family and friends about my sporting career . |
| 14 | I thought about my young wife in the hotel in the village . |
| 15 | ‘ Everyone 's going on about my six bookings . |
| 16 | You 're talking about my best friend , not about some — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 're talking about my professional integrity here ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Tell me about my real father . |
| 19 | Of course he knows nothing about my real desires . |
| 20 | I am concerned about my seven-year-old son . |
| 21 | I kept quiet about my sneaking affection for grolla — the grappa-laced coffee they serve in rustic wooden loving cups — and the Bar Roma 's wonderfully enveloping sofas , and tagged along . |
| 22 | What about my extra costs ? |
| 23 | They 'd write a poem for her about my greatest fear , I said I remember last year there was a boy called Ali and he wrote a story about a poem about this bird and cos he was really scared of that and so I said I do n't suppose any of you will write about being scared of me except perhaps Adine ! |
| 24 | Twenty years later he could still recall the event : ‘ I can think about my loyal dog buried in the snow , ’ ( Death Of A Lady 's Man ) . |
| 25 | Now what about my next-door neighbours ? |
| 26 | Good news about my golden handshake . |
| 27 | Well I did n't tell you about my hot date on Wednesday . |
| 28 | When he heard about my half-day holiday , he threw down his hammer angrily . |
| 29 | The Sun had all sorts of details about my private life that I never knew about . |
| 30 | ‘ What right have you to ask me about my private life ? ’ |