Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 2 | One of the French Commandos seeing my predicament involved the parents in conversation , while I found no difficulty in communicating with Francoise , their daughter . |
| 3 | So I reached for the senator 's hand , and thereby couched my lance to face the dragon 's fire . |
| 4 | I ask you , Mr. Speaker , to grant my request to allow the House to consider this serious matter . |
| 5 | I am disappointed that my right hon. Friend was not able to accept my invitation to attend the concert of the Royal Choral Society on a European theme at the Festival hall on 7 March , particularly as I hope to take part in it . |
| 6 | Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire . |
| 7 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 8 | ‘ And you truly do need my help to locate the ephemeral Svend — not to mention your sister . ’ |
| 9 | This is consistent with the evidence of the husband in cross-examination : ‘ [ Mr. Bunn ] told me he would need my wife to sign the charge too . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do enjoy my job serving the customers because of the way some of them ask sheepishly for a jokey item , ’ says Jenny . |
| 11 | ‘ Has my father paid the ransom ? ’ |
| 12 | I used my wealth to fund the building of a crypt at Glastonbury . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope my mother gets the job . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I sha n't expect my wife to travel the world with me , so that 's where you 'll stay . |
| 15 | Or they can be over-generous in an embarrassing way : I 've seen my wife offered the choice of a better cut of meat in a butcher 's shop , when there are little old ladies queueing up . |
| 16 | Do I appreciate that I have to lead my group to see the story as symbol ? |
| 17 | Please let my team beat the scum at the pigstye on New Years day , especially with a goal in the last 20 seconds . |
| 18 | I let my banjo do the singing . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd like my mother to do the same . ’ |
| 21 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 22 | I rushed outside , looked up and opened my mouth to let the flakes drop in . |
| 23 | Walter had me into his panelled wankpit of an office , classified my request to change the name on my cheques from N.O. Russell to Oliver Russell as not central to the Bank 's policy for the 1980s , and reminded me that unless funds were forthcoming to camouflage my black hole of an overdraft I would n't be getting a new cheque-book even if I called myself Santa Claus . |
| 24 | I can remember my dad opening the newspaper once and saying , ‘ There is going to be a war in China . ’ |
| 25 | I shook my head to dispel the feeling of unreality . |
| 26 | As it happened my brother knew the leading professor in testicular cancer there , Dr Janet Husband . |
| 27 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 28 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 29 | I would begin my much-loved cleaning the moment they all left for the pub , and in pursuit of domestic perfection removed the cushions from the couch to find the little brown eye-dropper-bottle . |
| 30 | I then started to put my foot to get the next rung down . |