Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not allow anyone , even the regent himself , to come wandering through my prison asking to see prisoners , especially such as Solper . |
| 2 | ‘ We face a stern test but it is important for my players to continue to believe in themselves . ’ |
| 3 | He looked and sounded now so unlike Old Red , the reputed scourge of Benedict 's , that I could n't wait for my holiday to end to let me get back and tell the girls . |
| 4 | I ca n't wait for my hair to start growing back again . ’ |
| 5 | That my love for my son has interfered with my passion for truth and justice . |
| 6 | I remember incidents like these , I think , because I was about seven , the age at which children start to notice social detail and social distinction , but also more particularly because the long lesson in hatred for my father had begun , and the early stages were in the traditional mode , to be found in the opening chapters of Sons and Lovers and Lawrence 's description of the inculcated dislike of Mr Morrell , of female loathing for coarse male habits . |
| 7 | Before the year was out my father had invested his small gratuity , his savings — for my mother had worked while he was at war — and opened a shop near the Market Place , specialising in selling components for those who wanted to build their own sets . |
| 8 | I 'm sure sh you know she would have been in dire trouble er only for my mother having seen her limping that day , but that 's the sort of thing she would do . |
| 9 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 10 | One of my students had come back , and was hesitating in the open door way . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of my dreams have come true . ’ |
| 12 | Sadly , the momentum gathered in the early days of my crusade had fizzled out by April , when it became obvious we were heading for Division One . |
| 13 | There were babies and there were children to be looked after , also Uncle Farmborough , who must in the end have become old in himself , since there was talk of my grandmother having to change his trousers . |
| 14 | Are you trying to tell me that some of my prisoners have escaped without me noticing ? ’ |
| 15 | Our speed built up rapidly and the inside of my cockpit started to mist up . |
| 16 | One day my master said to us , ‘ Some of my friends want to go fishing tomorrow . |
| 17 | And so many of my friends have said the same . |
| 18 | ‘ A lot of my friends have left , but I do n't know how many because many phones have been cut . |
| 19 | I 've a lot , a lot of my friends have got big dogs and they say oh they will jump up and I say squeeze her paws , it usually works |
| 20 | I have some dark red astilbes which lots of my friends have admired . |
| 21 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 22 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 23 | Some of my friends has got silver in . |
| 24 | One of those old elusive memories from the back of my brain returned to baffle me — a memory of something that had never happened to me . |
| 25 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 26 | A small corner of my brain ached to send the message : Hand rise up and smash the soft , repulsive body away … but … |
| 27 | He knows of my attempts to try to understand the so-called ’ Irish issue ’ . |
| 28 | The physical aspect of my journey had collapsed : a heel injury became aggravated , with a cut almost in as far as the bone , and the rest of the tour found me on wheels or afloat more than on foot . |
| 29 | Neither of my parents seemed to have any friends , and tended to talk disparagingly of neighbours or colleagues . |
| 30 | Reflecting in 1968 on the difference between him and Communists of the older generation , he said : ‘ They seem to approach reality by way of certain abstract categories , which seem to them to have a lot of meaning and to reflect concrete experience … ; [ whereas ] members of my generation tend to use as a starting point reality as it exists at the moment , they form general concepts on the basis of this reality and they disregard categories which seem to have lost their relevance and to function more as incantations than as concepts . ’ |