Example sentences of "[vb pp] my [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've heard my comments about the knows who it is . |
| 2 | I had to admit that , given my experiences of the evening , it remained a logical possibility that there might be some kind of entity out there skulking in some dark corner of the Cathedral , but somehow I thought not . |
| 3 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
| 4 | ‘ There ! ’ gasped Dimity , ‘ I 'd forgotten my cakes in the excitement . ’ |
| 5 | I 've trusted my instincts in the past and they 've usually been right . |
| 6 | As soon as I 've collected my things from the boat I 'll catch the first plane home and — ’ |
| 7 | The difference was that , having applied my colours in the same direct way , drawing from the end and edge of the pastel stick . |
| 8 | ‘ It has opened my eyes to the value of self-development , showing that people can acquire new skills without having to resort to external courses . ’ |
| 9 | It is with more pleasure that I thank all those who have helped my ideas about the Lorenz equations to develop ; they are many , but I must mention particularly Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , Bob Williams and Paul Glendinning . |
| 10 | Well I I think I I 've had my doubts from the start and I you have you 're iffy about it and I do n't want anybody whose iffy generally does n't make it with us . |
| 11 | ‘ I can not deny that I have had my troubles off the park , or that my mind was on other things for a while , but my head is down and I am concentrating on making a contribution to the team once again . |
| 12 | Havelock said : ‘ I have had my troubles in the past , but I have never let England down . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got my papers for the Army , Mr Fitz . |
| 14 | ‘ If only I 'd got my clothes for the wedding , ’ she mourned . |
| 15 | I 've got my orals on the eighteenth , nineteenth , and twentieth |
| 16 | Although I have based my designs on the blue-white-yellow colour combinations , there is no reason why you should n't use your own combination if you prefer it . |
| 17 | There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) . |
| 18 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 19 | I was asked my views on the reshuffle . |
| 20 | I was also asked my views on the chairmanship of the party . |
| 21 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 22 | went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house . |
| 23 | I have taken my children to the battlefields of north-east France as a result of which their grandfather died because of the foolishness of politicians . |
| 24 | ‘ You could say that I had worked my fingers to the bone for you ! ’ |
| 25 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |
| 26 | In an earlier incarnation I would have paid my dues to the temple priests and consulted the oracle : ‘ Please tell me whether the tumour in my chest has grown or diminished ? ’ |
| 27 | Instinct attached my hands to the reins as she accelerated and headed for home with me in tow . |