Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree that it would if I constantly compared her with my current partner , or wistfully mentioned her name from time to time . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 3 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 4 | She only liked me for my wealth , and when I , disguised as the gipsy woman , told her that I had only a little money , she and her mother lost interest in me . |
| 5 | The smell of couscous and other grain which filled the air constantly reminded me of my own situation . |
| 6 | MONDAY 6th OCTOBER X only wanted me for my body I will commit suicide |
| 7 | I scarcely met him during my time at COHQ ( 1944–46 ) ; by that time Mountbatten had left , the influence of COHQ had much declined and Zuckerman had more important jobs to do . |
| 8 | Diarrhoea , which I had now had for five days , finally drove me from my bed at six-thirty . |
| 9 | My focussing was so bad , my mind so fuzzy , he was like a shot from a Renoir film , He had a most serious smile and I think I just recognized him as my surgeon . |
| 10 | And he put out his hand , but I quickly wiped mine on my pinafore before I shook hands . |
| 11 | He hardly moved it in my chest but it felt like liquid fire . |
| 12 | then adopted you 're wrong they eloquently adopted them as my Lord , erm first of all article eighty five is direct my Lordship has heard all about that , to do that would be rendering excessively difficult the enforcement of the directly effective provision and your Lordship has no jurisdiction to do that |
| 13 | The air hostesses inquired what I was making and a man passing in the aisle quite genuinely complimented me on my work . ’ |
| 14 | Pat always reminded me of my own shape — a reasonably well proportioned figure but very heavy on the hips and thighs . |
| 15 | Stan Wickenden , purchasing director of Renshaws , quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions that Mitcham harboured fabulous nut-cracking machinery : ‘ Of course , you realise that most nuts are imported ready shelled . |
| 16 | Do n't know what they 're gon na come out like did it with my camera . |
| 17 | Frank usually left it outside my flat door on his way back from his morning jog . |
| 18 | I also told him of my affection for you and that I could n't injure you by marrying you without love . |
| 19 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
| 20 | In the ceremony I smeared the metal , rubber and plastic of the new device with earwax , snot , blood , urine , belly-button fluff and toenail cheese , christened it by firing the empty sling at a wingless wasp crawling on the face of the Factory , and also fired it at my bared foot , raising a bruise . |
| 21 | My mother and father both encouraged me in my playing , but I was n't encouraged to get into the business because they knew it was kind of tough . |
| 22 | ‘ I damned near killed you with my carelessness ! ’ she burst out suddenly , and she was glad that he did n't even look at her . |
| 23 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
| 24 | The first time she nearly burnt me in my bed , and the second time she visited you , and must have been reminded of her own wedding day by seeing your wedding dress . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know why , and I do n't know who — and it was probably nothing anyway ; I probably magnified it in my head out of all proportion . ’ |
| 26 | She even introduced me to my wife , but she knows she did n't exactly do either me or Rachel a favour that time . ’ |
| 27 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 28 | He ignored me until forced to ask a professional query , and then asked it of my cap . |
| 29 | I spat on my finger , rubbed it in the soot , then applied it to my eyebrow so that although it was not too convincing at close range , from a distance it looked natural enough . |
| 30 | I told him about my family and where they came from , then told him about my father . |