Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have been at the Crystal Palace too , willing me on to my first AAA Championship title , revelling in the rivalry , matching the best of the youngsters from Haringey . |
| 2 | His politics , as exemplified by this omission , again prove intriguing and his almost furtive observation hands me on to my next destination . |
| 3 | My faculty of speech was deserting me along with my other powers . |
| 4 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 5 | Using my beak as best I could , fending them off with my free wing . |
| 6 | And they come back and see me what they taken from here and seen in other papers is a privilege for me if I 've set them off in my biased Welsh way . . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll set me up in my own flat — ’ |
| 8 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 9 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 10 | This brings me back to my main theme , the need for more concentrated and co-ordinated work on manufacture and distribution , for without it , we will never fully understand the history of the development of the coarse wares , stylistically or chronologically . |
| 11 | That brings me back to my earlier point about the importance of considering giving compensation in such circumstances and perhaps introducing a new code of compensation . |
| 12 | And that brings me back to my original point . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd say that you 're being totally rude and arrogant , ’ Alyssia snapped , ‘ and I 'd also say that I think a meal out with André will more than get me back to my old , charming self ! ’ |
| 14 | Mark 's voice brought me back to my own predicament . |
| 15 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
| 16 | The Singhs ' supermarket swindle has at least got them out of my bald patch , as the prospect of lots of money has put football right out of their heads . |
| 17 | Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent . |
| 18 | But something , some sharper , unaccustomed sound , brought me out of my first deep sleep into listening wakefulness . |
| 19 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 20 | I panned the view , looking for visual stimulation to jerk me out of my maudlin stupor . |
| 21 | But they ca n't keep me out of my own house , can they ? ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , James Brown — who ‘ poached ’ me from Sounds to procure information on ‘ rock ’ music , an alien genre to NME staff flourishing on a staple diet of Ecstasy and Ribena in the halcyon daze of ‘ indie dance ’ in 1990 — ordered me out on my first ‘ job ’ to interview Page Three ‘ model ’ Maria Whittaker , whose debut single had stormed the UK Charts at Number 138 … with Kevin Cummins … |
| 23 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 24 | ‘ I wanted to look pale and interesting and bowl him over with my sparkling wit ! ’ |
| 25 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 26 | ‘ To get her out of my lovely bride 's way ? |
| 27 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 28 | I will certainly pass it on to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 29 | ‘ Do so and dear Uncle will simply laugh and put it down to my youthful impetuosity . |
| 30 | ‘ Put it down to my Sagittarian sense of drama . ’ |