Example sentences of "of my [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even diluted like I use it , ’ the mother told him , ‘ it makes a good deal of my hair fall out , so goodness knows what 's going to happen to you . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , but that 's where the other part of my plan comes in . |
| 4 | I loved it : when nearly every one of my friends came round , all they wanted to play was Super Wonder Boy . |
| 5 | ‘ Several of my friends went up yesterday , and were expecting to spearhead a big breakthrough . ’ |
| 6 | So one of my giants saunters over and kicks the two miserable chickens into positions suitable for having their shoes and trousers pulled off . |
| 7 | I have barely scraped the surface of my topics singled out for illumination . |
| 8 | I laid the sturdy Ministry of Defence plastic mug on the sand and then hopped round to the front of my tent to bring out my dirty washing . |
| 9 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 10 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 11 | oh yeah bu you see , er er , you 're not supposed to life anything for if one of my grandsons falls over , the first thing you do is pick him up you know ! |
| 12 | Can the price of my holiday go up ? |
| 13 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 14 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 15 | One of my boys went out to Heathrow to pick it up . |
| 16 | But her assessment of my ability to stand up and shout in a crisis is pretty much a front . |
| 17 | When I did Beyond The Fringe , I was five foot two and the rest of them were all six foot , and a lot of my comedy came out of me being small . |
| 18 | I discussed the format of the diet with various callers and then one of my members came in to the shop . |
| 19 | ‘ My symptoms only became apparent after 18 months — the skin of my bottom broke out in an itchy rash . |
| 20 | Most of my leaves drop down and fall in the borders |
| 21 | And again , elsewhere , she writes : ‘ The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's the third stage of my life to get on with . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 24 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 25 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 26 | of my constituents lost out . |
| 27 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 28 | I lead a very chaotic life and spend a lot of my time running around like a maniac so that keeps me fairly fit . |
| 29 | I was mostly bored by the degree course I was doing and spent more and more of my time skiving off to extra-mural classes in Women 's Studies , which were just beginning to happen , and devouring feminist books . |
| 30 | My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head . |