Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman got on to my area by making comparisons on education and training between this country and other countries . |
| 2 | I got on with my kitchen garden . |
| 3 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 4 | I always got on with my daughter , but she 's in Canada now , so I asked my son if I could stay with him for a bit . |
| 5 | I did the minimum of work academically and got on with my sport — at first soccer — and they never bothered me . ’ |
| 6 | I pretended not to notice her look of astonishment and got on with my shining . |
| 7 | ‘ Stormed around for a few days , lobbied as hard as I could and got on with my job . |
| 8 | And then I got on with my job . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 10 | He goes on to my lap . |
| 11 | The book now goes on to my sister and what happens next is up to her . |
| 12 | But this talk about ‘ a frontier which is perceived from both sides ’ makes it sound as if in addition to the physical eye which I can use to get at the pin there is a sort of phantom eye in my skull with which I can see what goes on under my skin . |
| 13 | ‘ One way , my life goes on despite my mother 's death ; the other way , someone else 's life goes on because of it . ’ |
| 14 | It all goes on in my head and I usually find that my first sketch depicts the piece I end up with . |
| 15 | What goes on in my mind is much more important . |
| 16 | It seemed unlikely ) : ‘ When I 'm with him , it 's like a light goes on inside my head . |
| 17 | I have a right to know what goes on behind my back . ’ |
| 18 | Having her gave me strength , I do n't mean that in a ‘ strong woman ’ sense , but a drive , an immense determination to carry on with my work . ’ |
| 19 | If there were n't new and interesting things worth saying I would n't bother to carry on with my work |
| 20 | ‘ So I decided to carry on with my knee heavily strapped . |
| 21 | When we do so , I intend to carry on with my job , which has agricultural connections . |
| 22 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 23 | " Well , could it be , sir , " I broached , leafing furiously through my dictionary , " that since this is the last Big One it might be , er , acceptable to send these sixty houses to the stars with — his Highness , your dad ? " |
| 24 | When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself . |
| 25 | The time I spent alone with her … those hours allowed me to gather strength to go on with my deception . |
| 26 | What I remember of that night resembles the memory of a dream : limbs twined round my own , and a loud , throbbing pounding noise that is my heart drumming in my ears , and a huge mouth like a scarlet flower fastened on to my mouth and my neck and my ears , and hands coiling around me and an immense and powerful heat spreading all over my body . |
| 27 | I sit down at my desk and write a letter of accusations to Crilly . |
| 28 | Just in the middle of doing something I have to sit down with my mind blank and filling , like a pitcher , with sadness . |
| 29 | Shortly after leaving Folkestone we were preparing to enter Ramsgate harbour on a cold , blustery day which prompted me to go below for my duffel coat as I normally conned Venturous alongside from the open bridge . |
| 30 | PAMELA : I fear only for my heart . |