Example sentences of "my [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film was Snow White ; and I felt my sanity slipping until the moment when the queen metamorphosed into the witch . |
| 2 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 3 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 4 | My heart fills with the anticipation of this perfect grove , towards which I am walking . |
| 5 | But my heart dipped at the thought . |
| 6 | My heart bleeds for the whole misunderstanding but it bleeds most for Diana . ’ |
| 7 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 8 | My heart leapt off the bedroom |
| 9 | ‘ When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it . |
| 10 | And how my heart aches for the baby son of Sarah Monelle , the young mum killed when a speeding car mounted the pavement , again in freezing fog , and ploughed into her and three of her pals . |
| 11 | Q I am getting married in the spring and am planning to have my hair permed nearer the time when it is longer . |
| 12 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 13 | I will make my views known to the world community and to UNESCO ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Did my coin land in the fountain ? ’ she asked . |
| 15 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 16 | My foot went on the |
| 17 | On the way down I had my camera tied to my waist and it started to drop ; in trying to grab it I lost my balance , got my foot caught in the tree root , took a tumble and twisted my ankle . |
| 18 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 19 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 20 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 21 | ’ I spend most of my time working so most of my money goes in the bank for a rainy day or for my children 's education . |
| 22 | ‘ But when my contract expires at the end of the season I 'll be keeping my fingers crossed that one of the top clubs will be interested in signing me . |
| 23 | It was a battle of weight versus cost , a battle which , to my husband 's dismay , I usually lost and we would have to pay over the odds to have my cases stowed in the hold of the Jumbo . |
| 24 | I left my cases parked on the quay , and made my way into the post office . |
| 25 | Down below , Quigley shouted goodnight at me and I shouted back , and , at last , my mum tiptoed to the door and , looking fearfully around her in case Quigley saw , blew me a little , damp kiss . |
| 26 | My mum went to the doctor and says to the doctor . |
| 27 | My dad was a coach builder and my mum worked at the gas board . |
| 28 | … I had done this process before , once , but not under pressure , when Aunt Viv had set a combination on a new suitcase and then forgotten it … one-four-eight , one-four-nine … my face sweating , my fingers slipping on the tiny wheels from haste … one-five-zero , one-five-one … |
| 29 | She let my fingers rest on the cool skin of her check ; but something in her now steady look , a declaration of inaccessibility , made me take my hand away . |
| 30 | And there 's nowhere to be alone , except my bedroom , and if I try to write there my fingers die with the cold . |