Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | I heard a terrible pounding in my ears , my heart thudding like a drum , my stomach lurching as I swung on the end of the rope . |
| 3 | I feel my heart beat like a boy 's |
| 4 | My heart fills with the anticipation of this perfect grove , towards which I am walking . |
| 5 | My stomach contracted and my heart went into a somersault . |
| 6 | My heart froze for a second , as if I had put on an elaborate disguise and suddenly been addressed by name — I did n't feel safe any more . |
| 7 | But my heart dipped at the thought . |
| 8 | I had my heart set on a soft-top — preferably a Corvette or a Mustang — and I was n't going to let a spot of bracing weather stand in my way . |
| 9 | My heart bleeds for the whole misunderstanding but it bleeds most for Diana . ’ |
| 10 | I stood up , holding on to the back of my chair , my heart beating like a hammer . |
| 11 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 12 | My heart overflows with a freedom |
| 13 | My heart leapt off the bedroom |
| 14 | My heart leapt like a lift for joy . |
| 15 | And my heart returned to a human being 's heart beat rate in — oh , just a few days , give or take a month or two . |
| 16 | My heart rose to a tidal detonation ; |
| 17 | ‘ When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it . |
| 18 | I just stood there , my heart banging like a sledge-hammer , and watched it slowly dawning on you . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My story begins with a visit to a great friend of mine , John Blackwell . |
| 21 | I 'd had enough of my hair looking like a toilet brush , so I always had it cut short — like Ronnie Lane 's of course — which was less hassle . |
| 22 | I was awful , in those days I was into acid green sleeks and I had my hair cut in a triangle When I saw Auntie Muriel I thought , if that 's the way you end up , working on a farm , I 'll stay at home and become an underresourced juvenile But it was n't up to me . |
| 23 | Q I am getting married in the spring and am planning to have my hair permed nearer the time when it is longer . |
| 24 | A bath was quickly prepared and , after being thoroughly scrubbed , had to suffer the indignity of having my hair cleaned with a nit comb — a most painful operation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Did my coin land in the fountain ? ’ she asked . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was my privilege to present with a satellite dish as a retirement gift from his colleagues , customers and the company . |
| 29 | My case packed for an emergency is in that cupboard over there . |
| 30 | My chest ached with a child 's fear while I cringed in the deeply recessed doorway of North Three . |