Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was n't there , and this is to your advantage because I 'm not going to harp on about my favourite Shankly saying , or pretend I was close friends with the man like certain people do . |
| 2 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 3 | Why , Mrs. Jewkes , you tell me she remains very sullen still and eats nothing , yet I think I never saw her look better in my life . |
| 4 | I take the cup into the kitchen together with my glass which I top up ; the alcohol is making my body hum . |
| 5 | Enya , who is at No. 11 with the haunting Book Of Days , reveals : ‘ I had hair down to my waist until I was 18 , then one day I cut it all off . |
| 6 | I used to say it was like people waking me up in the morning and throwing money in through my bedroom window . |
| 7 | He did kiss me back then , as if he wanted to press his wretched thin inhibited mouth right through my head . |
| 8 | Oh yes and there were eight choir men , you see , well no choir at all there had n't been for years , you see so er and I had a photograph somewhere of my father with eight choir men , you see , and er well after that |
| 9 | Supposing I 've got a cut right across my wrist here , or someone has |
| 10 | I never usually have any difficulty whatsoever holding on to my temper . |
| 11 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 12 | Enduring the descent of great slides of snow on to my back and shoulders , I rooted about the bases of small trees . |
| 13 | Then she went and spoiled everything by behaving as if pissed , lurching backwards and forwards till she ended up hanging upside down from my finger , gripping so tightly she almost drew blood . |
| 14 | I 'd get this throb all over my body . |
| 15 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 16 | Now , with the Hollywood movie Not Without My Daughter , in which he stars opposite Sally Field , due out later this year , it looks as if he 's finally set for international fame . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's been quite a loss of momentum lately in my area . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Middlesbrough is a club close to my heart . |
| 19 | I stand rock still in my corner . |
| 20 | I seem to remember my Panini album once to my horror picturing Stewart rather than Harvey , with the blurb along the lines of ‘ looks set to make the 1st team spot his own ’ but I do n't think that ever happened . |
| 21 | ‘ In answer to your question , ’ she went on firmly , ‘ it 's important to me because this club means a great deal more to my father than you could possibly understand — maybe even more than he understands . |
| 22 | I have a question for you regarding the setting up of my trem . |
| 23 | I was telling Adrian that , you were putting a red light up in my bedroom that I as long as your brother kept coming home with all his friends . |
| 24 | I did n't bother to keep scepticism out of my voice . |
| 25 | ‘ Move your fucking car out of my drive ’ , he growled . |
| 26 | ‘ And move your fucking car out of my drive . ’ |
| 27 | He grew up in a depressed community and would never forget what he saw there : ‘ I used to watch the wheel of the pit spin round year after year , after school and Saturdays and Sundays ; and then from 1926 on I watched it not turning at all , and I ca n't ever get that wheel out of my mind . ’ |
| 28 | I have a copy of the race tape back at my flat in London . |
| 29 | Cast your mind back to my description of the girl in the coffee bar , the one I gazed at earlier on in this long night , the coldest night of the year . |
| 30 | His voice as cold and hard as polished steel , Michele said , ‘ It was you who suggested I could have her eating out of my hand … ’ |