Example sentences of "my [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have given lands and privileges to get knight service , and kept my army in the field by contracts my forefathers never countenanced . |
| 2 | My plans also allow for an additional £30 million to be spent over the next three years on improving our school buildings , an increase of 17 per cent . |
| 3 | Was my freedom not given to me then in order to build the world of the You ? |
| 4 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 5 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 6 | George , wisely , did n't try to compete with guest Gary Moore and simply strummed his way through While my Guitar Gently Weeps as Moore 's Les Paul sobbed inconsolably — but by then it was all over bar the cheering . |
| 7 | I 'm very unfit and my heart nearly jumped out of my skin . ’ |
| 8 | my heart not working any more : |
| 9 | ( Not , by the way , that I have my heart particularly set on a boy but , having grown up with only brothers , I do n't quite know what the female clichés look like . ) |
| 10 | I was feeling pretty angry with her as I stomped across that big field , but when I reached her my heart just melted . |
| 11 | I did n't have time to get paranoid about blood poisoning as my heart suddenly stopped beating . |
| 12 | MY heart absolutely bleeds for those people of my age who are now suffering hardship . |
| 13 | Betty Maxwell , 72 , said : ‘ My heart absolutely bleeds for those people of my age who are now suffering hardship . |
| 14 | She said ’ My heart absolutely bleeds for those people who are suffering hardship . |
| 15 | She added : ‘ My heart absolutely bleeds for those people of my age who have been taken in that collapse and are now suffering hardship . |
| 16 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 17 | My heart almost stopped with its own heaviness . |
| 18 | And that is where my story really starts . |
| 19 | My hair always seems to look lank and lifeless , even though I make sure that I wash and condition it regularly . |
| 20 | Pre-Hugo , come to think of it , my hair never got mussed . |
| 21 | My hair still wet from the shower , |
| 22 | I am now 70 years of age and whilst my hair still grows quickly in length , it is getting thin on the scalp and it is still fine , flyaway and dry . |
| 23 | I have tried many brands , but my hair often seems to look dull . |
| 24 | Instead , as I sat in my cabin moodily pouring another Freezobalm , I was facing a good chance of losing my valuable reputation as an interplanetary courier . |
| 25 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 26 | At one point , I had the head of the local NCT , my midwife , my health visitor and my GP all coming over regularly . |
| 27 | All you young people as you pass by Pray on my grave now cast an eye Beware of false lovers and their friends I died from poison you may depend . ’ |
| 28 | I enjoyed Niall Dickson 's article ‘ Capital punishment ’ ( Body Politic , October 28 ) and was especially pleased to see my views accurately represented . |
| 29 | Now I 'm , I 'm from Worksop and my first job was at Newark and my contacts now gone . |
| 30 | They do n't , you do n't say er , this this pleases my smell , because my smell actually has a totally different meaning . |