Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 2 | ‘ Where two or three are gathered in my name , I shall be there with them ’ ( Matthew 18:20 ) |
| 3 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 4 | I am weeping in my pillow . |
| 5 | He flicked imaginary dust from the sleeve of his jacket and informed her , ‘ As you must surely be aware , Kirsty has already been placed in my custody . ’ |
| 6 | Both these methods for improving the cast-on edge are taught on my video Course No. 7C . |
| 7 | ‘ , ‘ The dumb words are fastened in my throat , / And will not come … . ’ |
| 8 | This was made very clear to me early in my fieldwork when I offended a neighbour by trying to make explicit return of food that had been given to my wife and me . |
| 9 | I have been struggling with my marriage for years largely because of my mood swings . |
| 10 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 11 | Like the other office-holders , I am debarred by my office from membership of the professional conduct committees . |
| 12 | ‘ You are forbidden by my Creator to be in here ! ’ |
| 13 | Wherever I play , I seem to be confident in myself and I am revelling in my return to fitness . |
| 14 | I feel like I was behind glass , and for a moment I am reminded of my dream , but Jancey pulls me by the arm back into reality and asks , ‘ You want to come say hello to your friends ? ’ |
| 15 | So I am constrained by my material world — the practicalities of my material circumstances — just as much as by my physical world . |
| 16 | I am committed to my partner . |
| 17 | She must have sensed that one day I would be leaving her again , and that nearly broke my heart , knowing the sadness she must feel all too well in my experiences with lovers who never stayed long but left me feeling as if part of me had been torn from my body . |
| 18 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 19 | The crimes in question had been committed by my body , not by me . |
| 20 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 21 | A cup of foaming vitriol had been prepared for my anointing by the infant 's grandmother , who was the mother of the Guider and a member of the church although not present on this occasion . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been looking after my aunt , sir , who 's just died . ’ |
| 23 | The fireplace , of typical Victorian cast-iron , was in the centre of the left hand wall whilst on the mantlepiece was a marble clock that had been presented to my mother and father when they married in 1904 , this had a large china dog on each side . |
| 24 | Every single childhood thing that I posses , all the dolls , books , cuddly toys , the posters of David Bowie and John Travolta , everything has been collected by my mother , and put into trunks in the cellar . |
| 25 | From this community they have spread out and have now become a part of LE for adolescents and children of all races , though perhaps ( no research has been done to my knowledge ) only in areas where there is significant contact between the black and white communities . |
| 26 | My uncles Fawzi and Tawfiq lived in two houses joined together , one of which had been built by my grandfather Ismail . |
| 27 | You see , it hurt me to think that you hated me , that you could have been conspiring behind my back with a man like William , but then I began to think a little straighter . |
| 28 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 29 | Anyway , an attempt 's already been made on my life . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I trust some progress has been made in my absence . ’ |