Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down at my desk and write a letter of accusations to Crilly . |
| 2 | PAMELA : I fear only for my heart . |
| 3 | I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the |
| 4 | at the crossroads by hampstead tube station i lay down in my heart and wept … |
| 5 | Tapes crash all over my desk . |
| 6 | Quite ob quite obviously cos I say so in my evidence . |
| 7 | Make sure you 're not followed , and slip over to my flat . ’ |
| 8 | The sound itself is the same as when a horse answers , ‘ Yes , I 'm here ! ’ , but the sound is also the same as when the horse neighs , ‘ Hurry up with my dinner ! ’ |
| 9 | I have really bad nightmares of someone pursuing me , or a really big landslide coming down on me , and I race out of my bed and run , run far away and find something to defend myself with , like a candelabra or a bottle . |
| 10 | I blink my eyes for some inkling of orientation , but the high-pitched multi-signals whine and cascade about in my head just to make things quite clear that they 're not going to be harassed into full-powered service tonight . |
| 11 | I 'll have a cup of tea then bash on with my window then I think . |
| 12 | Not while I hold on to my cottage , there is n't . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't touch my arm , hold on to my waist ! ’ he shouted . |
| 14 | ‘ Hold on to my shirt ! ’ |
| 15 | Yet one of the sights I treasure most in my memory is of a French river in the Cévennes where black-veined whites in their hundreds were floating among falling poplar down in the dappled sunlight . |
| 16 | I ignore him and dive down to my furniture underworld to etch the bizarre scene on my mind once more . |
| 17 | I climb up to my room from the small courtyard by a steep wooden ladder and stoop through the doorway , as I must through all the doorways here . |
| 18 | Do n't break a habit of a lifetime and hold back on my account ! ’ |
| 19 | I put the kettle , already nicely blackened and battered , into the pile of ash and climb back into my camp bed . |
| 20 | I no longer lash out at my husband and the children . |
| 21 | And I cut back on my intake , |
| 22 | The laibon 's son , paramat , and I walk back to my camp . |
| 23 | I walk back to my car with friends , talking all the while , and fumbling my keys in door , fail to open it . |
| 24 | Then these hideous scrawking , banshee noises break out of my belly … |
| 25 | I shall expect you always to be dressed by dinner time and whomsoever I bring home to my table you 'll be in readiness to receive . |
| 26 | I leave it all up to Rob as I blank out my mind and hang on to my sanity . |
| 27 | I stop in front of the shop and look inside with my forehead sort of pressed against the glass . |
| 28 | I look all over my face , at my eyes , I try to see what my eyes say . |
| 29 | Books on Buddhism line the walls and , when I lie down on my futon , I am covered with an ethnic rug of indeterminate origins . |
| 30 | I lie down on my bed and remove my socks before looking at the folder . |