Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly enough I did n't set out from wherever I come from to trespass on your island , or to lose my wretched memory . |
| 2 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 3 | To get me ordering oysters or ironing my black satin sheets . |
| 4 | I am more than happy to pay tribute to those gallant and courageous civil servants who led or followed my hon. Friend on that exciting detour on the continent . |
| 5 | And nothing that has happened to us since then … neither our separation , nor misguided , foolish pride on both our parts … nothing can ever change or alter my deep love for you . ’ |
| 6 | No longer are my positive and negative leads just hanging free about to blow a fuse or allow my personal electricity to seep away . |
| 7 | Today treat yourself to your favourite menus of the last week — any breakfast , lunch or dinner — or try my special menu designed to mark your achievement so far . |
| 8 | At any rate , perhaps I may be allowed to communicate with Your Majesty on this point , or ask my Private Secretary to discuss it with Sir Michael Adeane . |
| 9 | I 'll I 'll try and rewrite my erm this is something that is not a problem , every time I write a letter it or write my introductory letter it comes out different , so I 'll try and simplify my introductory letter as well , I think we 'll get a bigger uptake , |
| 10 | I was sure he knew I could barely contain myself or restrain my trembling fingers that longed to run their tips along the insides of those meaty thighs that were spreadeagled enticingly over the edge of his seat . |
| 11 | But although I scarcely , if ever , thought about sex , I wallowed in thoughts of death , utilising them , rather than death itself , to bear or deny my increasing depression instead of taking steps to put an end to it . |
| 12 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 13 | ‘ Nor does my bald spot . ’ |
| 14 | What upsets and angers my hon. Friends is that the Department of Energy is praying in aid the proposed European Community directive on working time as a justification for that change . |
| 15 | My only support at the time came from a Nigerian girl and a Ugandan Asian girl who were also in my class and shared my deep sense of alienation from our environment . |
| 16 | I would warn the House , and repeat my earlier point , that Mr. Beck had qualifications . |
| 17 | I knew I should throw her to the patrol and make my own getaway , but she appealed to the chink in my armour . |
| 18 | I did n't advertise for a partner but I went to the single 's and divorcee club and met my second husband and its magic the second time around . |
| 19 | My God , I 'd even told my grandfather that I was coming home — and bringing my future bride . ’ |
| 20 | After qualifying in medicine and completing my house-officer training , I was employed as a research assistant in a university department of medicine investigating various aspects of lead poisoning . |
| 21 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 22 | I went to them all and watched and listened and made my own judgements . |
| 23 | Given my concentration so far on the possession/separation issue , and its relation to the circulation process , and given my earlier insistence that economic class relations at the level of possession/separation can not be conceived as the underlying ‘ essence ’ of social and political collectivities and movements , which demand analysis in their own right , I am not yet in a position to draw full ‘ political conclusions ’ ( the following chapters will take us some way further in this direction ) . |
| 24 | I do this , and reel my other rod in so that if the carp does give one another chance there will be no other line to get in the way of my landing it . |
| 25 | Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash . |
| 26 | ‘ I struggled and twisted and got my right hand free . |
| 27 | Erm I must say that on the clothing scene , because I did criticize it in my earlier statements , er that when I was so young I thought it was so frumpy and I was so pleased when I was married and got my own income that , you know , I could go elsewhere and choose something . |
| 28 | I kick at a flint , hard , missing and catching my other ankle . |
| 29 | ‘ Going out there on a new board and catching my first wave when I had n't surfed Pipeline for a year only reaffirms my confidence . ’ |
| 30 | It finally bit me , twisting its neck more than I would have thought possible and catching my right index finger right on the knuckle . |