Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or kill you with my bare hands ! ’ |
| 2 | Phone Trowbridge 3130 9 am-4 pm. or drop them into my home . |
| 3 | My poor mother , I am sure , could n't determine whether to commend my prudence or berate me for my lack of romance . |
| 4 | Or to congratulate me on my maiden speech ? |
| 5 | Throughout the pamphlet Hic Mulier seems to be in sympathy with this remark of Montaigne 's , but nowhere is her appropriation of the idea more challenging than in the way she dissolves both law and ideological fixity into a celebration of change and transformation , and , by implication , a celebration of her potential rather than her fixed nature : ‘ Nor do I in my delight of change otherwise than as the whole world does ’ ( sig . |
| 6 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 7 | During my annual medical check-up in 1987 , Dr Dingle discovered a blood irregularity , but as I was fighting fit he said it was probably just a virus and I was to forget about it during my impending holiday and to see him on my return for a second blood test . |
| 8 | If you accept , his Grace 's page will conduct you , and commend you to my wife . ’ |
| 9 | Secretly , I buy some scales from Woolworth 's and hide them in my room . |
| 10 | I exchange this particular envelope for two one-ounce packets and hide them in my hand . |
| 11 | I would ask you to point out this dramatic increase to the people of your parish and to thank them on my behalf for their generous efforts . |
| 12 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 13 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 14 | Sam said ‘ We will change your name and send you to my tailor ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I wish I could court you with beautiful words , ’ the farmer went on , ‘ but I can only say I love you madly and want you for my wife . |
| 16 | There is on record a confession of Cobden-Sanderson 's , who said of a failure to bind a copy of Tennyson 's In Memoriam to his satisfaction : ‘ I could spit upon the book , throw it out of the window , into the fire , upon the ground and grind it with my heel . ‘ |
| 17 | If Samoa , Mount Silisili and yesterday were indeed somewhere out there , I would have to take their presence on trust : I doubt if the visibility was more than five miles , and less as the squalls rolled in and drenched me in my eyrie . |
| 18 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 19 | ‘ So he can stay and assist me with my enquiries . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll come up there immediately and beat him with my stick . ’ |
| 21 | Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940 meant the arrival of an exhausted Belgian soldier , who was a teacher and helped me with my French . |
| 22 | In the end I was again rescued by the housekeeper , Zillah , who ordered away the dogs and helped me to my feet . |
| 23 | If the military really believes in the justification of its exclusive stance , then let it stick to its guns and prosecute me for my actions . |
| 24 | I spit it out and flick it from my eyes . |
| 25 | I telephoned Anna-Lisa after the AAAs and told her about my injury . |
| 26 | I arranged to see Isabelle alone and told her of my feelings . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've taken the tape to the police , of course , and told them about my cat , but that 's all . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're in the same business , ’ I said , and told him about my Mickey Mouse job . |
| 29 | ‘ In fact , ’ she added , ‘ I 'll come and fetch you on my motor bike . |
| 30 | They hurried into the room and bundled me into my clothes and stretchered me into the garden . |