Example sentences of "and [v-ing] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My God , I 'd even told my grandfather that I was coming home — and bringing my future bride . ’ |
| 2 | After qualifying in medicine and completing my house-officer training , I was employed as a research assistant in a university department of medicine investigating various aspects of lead poisoning . |
| 3 | I kick at a flint , hard , missing and catching my other ankle . |
| 4 | ‘ Going out there on a new board and catching my first wave when I had n't surfed Pipeline for a year only reaffirms my confidence . ’ |
| 5 | It finally bit me , twisting its neck more than I would have thought possible and catching my right index finger right on the knuckle . |
| 6 | Janice said suddenly , throwing herself at me and enveloping my upper torso in a hug that would have done credit to a grizzly . |
| 7 | His main purpose in all his studies became , as he says , that of ‘ informing and reforming my own Soul ’ . |
| 8 | I found the parking area in front of the gloomy , if majestic , main building , and keeping my little angel on a strangle-tight lead , prepared for disapproval . |
| 9 | I asked , putting the fish slice down and quivering my bottom lip . |
| 10 | However , I had already begun the process , long before coming over , of minimizing and dismissing my cultural identity . |
| 11 | His secretary had come to regard lying to me as part of her job and even our friends lied for him , aiding and abetting my dick-led husband in a misguided effort to protect me . |
| 12 | I am being punished for being an invalid and paying my national insurance contributions for 40 years . |
| 13 | I pulled on my wellies ten minutes later , and then , slinging my scarf over my shoulder and securing my stripy bobble hat , I ran outside . |
| 14 | On the other hand , I could do , I did , exactly the opposite , keeping my father satisfied and happy and my mother ignorant , helping to shore up their marriage , holding the family together and preserving my unsuspecting brothers , who thought they were so superior to me , from disgrace . |
| 15 | I was sixteen and wearing my prettiest frock . |
| 16 | While we 're promoting my own show and blowing my own trumpet , er this afternoon Jenny is on for my for me this afternoon . |
| 17 | After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm . |
| 18 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it will stand me in good stead when I 'm about 40 and doing my first Isolde ! ’ |
| 19 | This is because of a sleepy driver who knocked me off my bicycle one evening in 1980 , breaking my back and severing my spinal cord . |
| 20 | Obviously I would have to start re-learning my past and re-discovering my appointed place in the world . |
| 21 | This is particularly unfortunate because in deciding to set aside the demand the judge exercised a discretion , and on this appeal I am discharging an appellate jurisdiction and not hearing the matter afresh and exercising my own discretion : see In re Gilmartin ( A Bankrupt ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 513 . |
| 22 | All I have to do is tell her that our cold stores are full of life-saving health foods , without which I would be keeling over and clutching my left ventricle . |
| 23 | Tucking my load of sticks under one arm , and rubbing my free hand hard over face and hair , I scurried for the safety of the cottage . |
| 24 | Pulling on a sweater and wrapping my long kilt around me , I made my way towards Sheikha Grandmother 's house . |
| 25 | If he had kept his mouth shut I would still be eating rancid meat and plotting my own way out of Paris . |
| 26 | My main problem has been dragging myself away from my favourite armchair , prising my eyes from the television and relinquishing my white-knuckle grip around the remote control . |
| 27 | I send my secretary there an SOS and she spends a day clearing up and dumping my old files , generally tidying me up as well . |
| 28 | I asked , stepping sideways to avoid a brace of female traffic wardens and smiling my best smile as a talisman in case they should visit Golden Square . |
| 29 | They had forged an acquaintance over transatlantic phone calls in the dead of British nights — enquiring , explaining and arranging my present appointment . |
| 30 | ‘ I remember bursting into tears and blowing my nose and saturating my tiny handkerchief so that it was no use for the rest of the day , ’ writes P. Atkinson , of The Green , West Cornforth , who was revising for mock O-levels at Stand Grammar School for Girls , in Manchester . |