Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne says , fanning her mouth and hanging onto my arm . |
| 2 | I see me in my shame , the horror of this hour ; mascara fallout littering my face like ashes , my skin dank with the sweat of Crilly and myself , my underwear torn and hanging from my hips , and me , small and stoned and sobbing , beneath the stern emphatic white of Siobhan 's cross . |
| 3 | The man behind me leant forward and whispered in my ear , ‘ Tell that guy to quit yapping will you ? |
| 4 | At midnight , the nice Salvation Army wife , who had travelled with us , shook my arm and whispered in my ear , ‘ Be careful , there 's a man at your feet . |
| 5 | After dinner on our last night , then , while Anne was pouring coffee at the sideboard , Poppy walked behind my chair and whispered in my ear . |
| 6 | A courtier leaned over and whispered in my ear . |
| 7 | I see him sluggish and stoned in my mind 's eye , his ginger hair and heavy lidded eyes , his clammy , groping hands and nothing to call his own . |
| 8 | It did n't , I did and clad in my cagoule , glasses steamed up , and mouthing curses at the weather , I walked through the grey rain to Attermire and back to Malham . |
| 9 | The grass was heavy with dew ; drops of mist bowed the unopened flowers and clung to my Sacrifice Poles , too , like clear blood on the shrivelled heads and tiny , desiccated bodies . |
| 10 | ‘ Tomorrow I 'm to take a look at some building plots which Paulo considers might be a good buy , ’ Vitor explained , ‘ So I arrived in Carvoeiro an hour ago and checked into my hotel . |
| 11 | I rose , got dressed and gazed at my luggage lying on the floor . |
| 12 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 13 | But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived . |
| 14 | And er I 'd come up and stay with my brother in Holyhead about two or three times a week . |
| 15 | " I would like to invite you to come and stay at my house , " he said . |
| 16 | I was going to say , you say you do n't have to watch it , well you want to come and stay in my house ! |
| 17 | ‘ Leave me for a bit , Billy , ’ she says with her back to me , so I go out and sit on my bed . |
| 18 | Come over 'ere and sit on my face and go to sleep . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Come and sit on my knee . ’ |
| 20 | The driver grabbed me by the shoulder and asked for my fare . |
| 21 | A nurse came in and asked for my X-rays and I remembered I had forgotten them . |
| 22 | She stopped speaking and winked at my master , taking another sip from his goblet and grabbing the second penny he offered . |
| 23 | ‘ I just throw my dirty clothes on the floor and next day they appear clean and pressed in my wardrobe ’ . |
| 24 | It 's about the size of one joint on your little finger , and it went sideways through my chest and stopped in my right arm . |
| 25 | I tried to forget about it and to go about my routine day as usual . |
| 26 | I would talk and laugh with my companions but withdraw , lapsing into silence , when I was offered any food . |
| 27 | Anyway , after a while , during that sun-bleached , snowblind vigil of booze and lies and pornography , the girls tended to mangle and dismember in my mind . |
| 28 | I went at it with pleasure , front-pointing happily and resting on my ski poles , watching Liena 's progress with concern . |
| 29 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 30 | The more he follows me around and goes through my things , the more I feel I have to hide things . |