Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Get on with it , Will , ’ she said , ‘ I 'll be down in a minute , got to see to my mam . ’ |
| 2 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 3 | I got picked for my maths yesterday . |
| 4 | Certainly the people I got to know during my fifteen months on the sports circuit for the Sunday Correspondent readily confirmed my own impression that McIlvanney is the best in the business . |
| 5 | ‘ The most glaring one was last night when you tried to appeal to my pragmatic nature by admitting that ‘ it would only be lust ’ — no doubt you imagined we could establish some sort of ‘ adult ’ agreement on the basis of that . ’ |
| 6 | I stopped eating on my return from the summer camp mentioned earlier . |
| 7 | George moved to stand on my foot just as Katy discovered a pound coin and Christopher yelled it was his . |
| 8 | I gave up trying to find excuses to calm her and tried to concentrate on my ironing , hoping against hope that you would yet arrive . |
| 9 | I could hear foreign voices raised in the kitchen and stopped listening to my companions . |
| 10 | He promised to look into my complaint and ceremoniously restored my defaced season ticket with a rubber . |
| 11 | I wanted to join up , like you — I even tried lying about my age , but I did n't have any luck . ’ |
| 12 | I tried to focus on my interior but there was nothing to focus on : just space , disappearing into further emptiness . |
| 13 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 14 | I slept on the kitchen sofa , ’ she added , ‘ and the cat tried to sleep on my face . |
| 15 | All of this was hidden behind the ‘ normal ’ lifestyle that I tried to project to my family and friends , ’ days Paula Farrance , 28 , from St Albans . |
| 16 | ‘ And to Cousin Flo , who I promised to mention in my will … |
| 17 | A small form whipped past me into the alley and tried to squeeze between my back and the wall I was leaning against . |
| 18 | Then he let go of my sleeve as if he 'd confessed what it was he had to confess . |
| 19 | He let go of my arm . |
| 20 | Then he let go of my arm . |
| 21 | After a while he let go of my head and started to cross himself furiously . |
| 22 | A great cheer went up from the crowd as Otley approached daubed with my blue eye shadow and making threatening gestures in the direction of the enemy . |
| 23 | The only corners I knew were in the playground where boys tried to fumble in my knickers , and street corners where the winds met head-on . |
| 24 | After writing about fifty scientific papers on the subject I decided to reach a wider audience and moved into television , where week after week I tried to get across my fascination for the animal world . |
| 25 | When two men tried to break into my kitchen via a skylight window at midnight while I was at home , I made the grave error of dialling 999 . |
| 26 | After the shop girl stopped giggling at my enquiry , she explained , handkerchief on mouth , that Brack Loaves with rings inside are a Halloween tradition . |
| 27 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 28 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 29 | These are the questions which I sought to answer through my fieldwork which began in November , 1981 , as part of two research projects based at the University of York . |
| 30 | It became absorbed into my personal experience and my family 's folklore , and life carried on . |