Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , ’ he whispered confidentially , ‘ the thing to remember is that the Greek Orthodox priest is the one on the left with the beard , ’ and with that flung me determinedly into my seat . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you all right , darling ? ’ he asked , and led me along to my son 's house ! |
| 3 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 4 | come up mum 's with the , and he snatched my handbag and he took the keys , he said that copper has got no rights to tell him to hand over them keys to me , I said what and he snatched them out of my handbag and I 've got no rights to my own house keys and I said what rights have I got to do , down his flat and collect half of my stuff back then ? |
| 5 | Signe stood behind me and helped me off with my coat . |
| 6 | I 'm just ringing up to say you helped me along with my ironing great . |
| 7 | But you helped me out with my grades so I 'll overlook that . ’ |
| 8 | On another occasion he drove me back to my hotel and I had to make it very clear it was n't on . |
| 9 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
| 10 | I never saw him in his blood-stained overalls , but I always imagined him thus in my mind . |
| 11 | Sally wanted to know how I became a caddie and I filled her in on my doings since we left university . |
| 12 | Although it was all very exciting , I could not avoid noticing the dirt and bad smells and heat , and I compared it sadly with my village home , which now seemed so far away . |
| 13 | I dropped it out of my pocket , it must of done |
| 14 | I filed it away in my wallet . |
| 15 | Her reactions momentarily startled me out of my anxiety . |
| 16 | Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent . |
| 17 | He hauled me up to my tutor , who said , do you intend to marry the girl ? |
| 18 | I was too scared to cry out as he hauled me roughly to my feet and shook me violently . |
| 19 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 20 | With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman . |
| 21 | As Mrs Giffen showed me up to my room , she smiled and said , ‘ Is n't it wonderful ? |
| 22 | Addy adjusted it fastidiously above my hollow-eyed , pasty face . |
| 23 | Anyway , James Brown — who ‘ poached ’ me from Sounds to procure information on ‘ rock ’ music , an alien genre to NME staff flourishing on a staple diet of Ecstasy and Ribena in the halcyon daze of ‘ indie dance ’ in 1990 — ordered me out on my first ‘ job ’ to interview Page Three ‘ model ’ Maria Whittaker , whose debut single had stormed the UK Charts at Number 138 … with Kevin Cummins … |
| 24 | Gwenellen relieved me again for my night meal at one-thirty . |
| 25 | She was so extraordinarily pleasant it knocked me quite off my balance . |
| 26 | I followed him through to my room , where he bent to light the lamp . |
| 27 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 28 | I fed it kindly with my Father 's Hay , |
| 29 | Having got there , I felt like resting , but curiosity pulled me on to my feet . |
| 30 | I turned to the gang and waved them on with my hand . |