Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 2 | " I do n't want to burden you with my problems . " |
| 3 | But there — I do n't want to burden you with my troubles . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 5 | Well , tonight you may leave early , but I want to see you with my guests every evening . |
| 6 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 7 | I do n't want to put it in me deposit you see , I want to put it in my next year 's commitment |
| 8 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 9 | When he tried to put it in my back passage , I said no . |
| 10 | You want to leave me on my own tonight and go to a disco and let some spotty lout put his arms about you ? ’ |
| 11 | I do n't drink much of my beer , partly due to a disapproving glance from Willie , and partly because I want to leave it under my chair for Jerry to have later . |
| 12 | All the time I 'm working and eating and chatting to my mates , I just want to feel you next to me , just want to hold you in my arms and forget about everything else . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to hold you in my arms and kiss you till we 're both half crazy with it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 15 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |
| 16 | I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to ask you about my Diary . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm not really used to being so personal or so open about things in public but want to tell you of my great sadness in life . |
| 19 | It was against this background that Peter Thompson , the chief executive of NFC , together with his chairman , Bobby Lawrence , came to see me in my small office on the Cabinet floor of the House of Commons on 18 May 1981 . |
| 20 | When our daughter Rebecca was three she came to see me in my office one day and said , ‘ Daddy , you 're the leader of the church , and you know everything . ’ |
| 21 | I came to know it with my eyes shut , by its noises and its smells . |
| 22 | Do you know what Shrimpy 's decided to buy me for my birthday ? |
| 23 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't feel resentful that God has decided to take me before my allotted span . |
| 25 | SOMEWHERE OUT THERE my Rose is searching to liberate me from my prison of love . |
| 26 | And so , before Reldresal came to tell me of my punishment , I went to the north of Lilliput , where our ships lay . |
| 27 | He would not see me there ; he condescended to see me at my hotel . |
| 28 | As one farmer put it , ‘ Time allows me to be interested only in what is going to affect me on my farm — making up the numbers is not the answer ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ In the Antarctic , I 'm going to carry it under my clothes . |
| 30 | ‘ I happened to see it on my way back from the nursing-home and I thought it would go particularly well with the dress . ’ |