Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 2 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 3 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 4 | If Samoa , Mount Silisili and yesterday were indeed somewhere out there , I would have to take their presence on trust : I doubt if the visibility was more than five miles , and less as the squalls rolled in and drenched me in my eyrie . |
| 5 | I 'll come up there immediately and beat him with my stick . ’ |
| 6 | Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940 meant the arrival of an exhausted Belgian soldier , who was a teacher and helped me with my French . |
| 7 | In the end I was again rescued by the housekeeper , Zillah , who ordered away the dogs and helped me to my feet . |
| 8 | I telephoned Anna-Lisa after the AAAs and told her about my injury . |
| 9 | I arranged to see Isabelle alone and told her of my feelings . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've taken the tape to the police , of course , and told them about my cat , but that 's all . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're in the same business , ’ I said , and told him about my Mickey Mouse job . |
| 12 | They hurried into the room and bundled me into my clothes and stretchered me into the garden . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He turned his hand into a buzzsaw , and buried it in my leg , but I phantomed myself before he could breach my similie . |
| 15 | and dropped it on my feet . |
| 16 | And with that he bent over and lifted me to my feet and told me to be off , which I did not need to be told twice to do . |
| 17 | All those years I amassed it , and polished it with my mind : for the Jews ' teeth . |
| 18 | My voice was taut with anger as I pulled it out of the shelf in front of me and opened it on my knees . |
| 19 | His unfailing support , wide advice , strong advocacy and practical help sustained and encouraged me from my start in September 1967 as FYT 's first paid staff person . |
| 20 | Eventually , I found a rope and threw it to my pal and they made it fast . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Made a funnel of the waxed paper , and tipped it into my wide-open mouth . |
| 23 | I hit him again , but he had his arm up , at the same time he kicked out and knocked me off my feet . |
| 24 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 25 | When I stopped , she turned her nose to me again and whiffed it across my hand again , huffed , and walked off . |
| 26 | She reached over the piano to a pile of little plastic cups , grabbed one and shoved it into my hand . |
| 27 | Then I made a fist-sized roll of the rest and shoved it into my deepest pocket . |
| 28 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 29 | I obtained five small imported specimens of about 1½″ and placed them in my fish room in a prepared 18″ × 12″ × 12″ tank , leaving them to settle . |
| 30 | While he was in the lavatory , Michael tells me that , observing the large hat reposing by the overcoat , I reverently picked it up and placed it on my head . |