Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the interview they asked me about my future plans . |
| 2 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 3 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 4 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 5 | " My life was formed only by means of the public library which provided me with my only uncensored access to books . |
| 6 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 7 | She writes : ‘ My time spent ‘ at the University of Oxford ’ broadened my outlook in many respects and this helped me with my academic studies and writing from then on' . |
| 8 | It helped me in my desperate attempt to respect his judgement . |
| 9 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 10 | I found it in my old snap album . |
| 11 | Regretfully , I consigned them to my personal museum of surfing memorabilia along with my Coogee Beach swallow-tail radical intermediate . |
| 12 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 13 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 14 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 15 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 16 | I agree that it would if I constantly compared her with my current partner , or wistfully mentioned her name from time to time . |
| 17 | I think my mum is still in a state of shock after I told her about my Irish selection . ’ |
| 18 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 19 | In the ceremony I smeared the metal , rubber and plastic of the new device with earwax , snot , blood , urine , belly-button fluff and toenail cheese , christened it by firing the empty sling at a wingless wasp crawling on the face of the Factory , and also fired it at my bared foot , raising a bruise . |
| 20 | And when I arrived in Lanyon 's house , I took the dose of the drug that returned me to my normal appearance . |
| 21 | Made a funnel of the waxed paper , and tipped it into my wide-open mouth . |
| 22 | But there was another deeper factor that endeared me to that little derelict church at Knowlton and slotted it into my spiritual pattern even tighter than my fictional one . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 24 | It is the lint and fluff on my old winter coat , stuck to the sleeves like dead bugs , and it is the same old towel hanging from the rack in my bathroom , stiff with decay but still pink , still the shape it was over a year ago , the last time I used it , the last time I shoved it across my stubborn wet flesh and up between my legs and rough through my tangle of sopping hair , the same hair , the same hair . |
| 25 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 26 | I got her through my old friend , Blandly , who , with everyone in Bristol , worked hard to find me a suitable ship when they heard the reason for our voyage — treasure , I mean . |
| 27 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 28 | I recently saw them at my local garden centre . |
| 29 | How did you feel when you saw me with my beautiful Oriental mistress ? ’ |
| 30 | I detest the armoured , air-conditioned truck that deprived me of my final opportunity to desecrate the holy relic that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |