Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand about my waist pulls me closer . |
| 2 | Although I 'm starting to cope with the idea that the rape was n't my fault , I ca n't get rid of the feeling that something about my appearance singled me out . |
| 3 | simply to shut off my brain to enable me to sleep , much the same as the |
| 4 | I felt a watery feeling in my eyes as that familiar sensation of heat searing through my body engulfed me , |
| 5 | ‘ I sat patiently waiting for my buddy to join me , ’ Jinky continued . |
| 6 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 7 | I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly , waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip . |
| 8 | A firm , insistent hand between my shoulder-blades pushed me further into the room ; my feet moved , but my body refused to follow and I realised I was standing at an angle . |
| 9 | She was the first girl after my sisters to affect me . |
| 10 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 11 | Last summer one of my friends lent me a C.B. and an old aerial as he had bought a new set and some more of my friends had C.B.s . |
| 12 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 13 | And oddly enough one of my friends asked me only yesterday when he said what 's on your programme for next week , he said how on earth do you keep up to date ? |
| 14 | Many of my friends followed me to Paris or they disappeared or they died . |
| 15 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 16 | ‘ Hello , Francis , ’ I said , to have the sound of my voice ground me . |
| 17 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 18 | Jamie shoved one hand down the back of my cords to keep me from falling on my face , and put the other hand on to my forehead , murmuring something . |
| 19 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Couple of my boys tell me you 're trying to earn a piece of that five grand I 'm putting up . |
| 21 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ All right , then : one of my contacts tipped me off . ’ |
| 23 | At I prepared to return to Britain , several of my relatives gave me copies of their identity cards , the deed for their houses and even the ownership documents for their property . |
| 24 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
| 25 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 26 | The promptings of my mind told me to get out of computing and go to live in Shropshire on a small dairy farm making highly profitable specialist products such as goat 's milk yoghurt , sheep 's cheese and traditional butter . |
| 27 | I 'd never enjoyed the media interest and the goldfish-bowl aspect of driving , and while I was grateful to have fans their continual invasion of my privacy got me down . |
| 28 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 29 | And the full awfulness of my landing hit me in a rush . |
| 30 | ‘ Many of my people saw me . |