For example, in the sentence " My shirt is lying on the bed ", the verb " lies " is used because the subject " my shirt " is a flat, flexible object.

In the sentence " My belt is lying on the bed ", the verb " lies " is used because the subject " my belt " is a slender, flexible object.

Whitmore professed no regret that Tauranga-ika had been taken without resistance: " My object was to gain possession of the district and if I could do this without loss and without putting too heavy a strain on my raw troops they would be encouraged.

There, in his speech, Arthur Conan Doyle stated: " I consider the production a personal gratification ... My only complaint is that you made the poor hero of the anemic printed page a very limp object as compared with the glamour of your own personality which you infuse into his stage presentment ".

Each monologue offers the speakers ' reasons for transforming the desired woman from subject to object: in " My Last Duchess ", the Duke may have jealously murdered his wife, but keeps a portrait of her behind a curtain so none can look upon her smile without his permission ; in " Porphyria's Lover ", the persona wishes to stop time at a single perfect moment and so kills his lover and sits all night embracing her carefully arranged body.

My whole object in taking up the burdens of this office is to prevent this, and I shall not allow my fellow citizens to destroy themselves, even if they wish it.

Abbott first began to grow ill in May 1832, when he wrote to Sir Egerton Brydges that " My spirit is so depressed, that when I am not strongly excited by some present object that admits of no delay, I sink into something very nearly approaching torpidity ".

Leto got his first roles in TV shows like Camp Wilder ( 1992 ) and Almost Home ( 1993 ) before he becoming a regular in the 1994 series My So-Called Life as the object of Claire Danes ' affection, Jordan Catalano.

In the 1993 film Farewell My Concubine, by Chen Kaige, Peking opera serves as the object of pursuit for the protagonists and a backdrop for their romance.

Even after the collapse, and idealization, of Sparta, Polybius wrote, " My object, then, in this digression is to make it manifest by actual facts that, for guarding their own country with absolute safety, and for preserving their own freedom, the legislation of Lycurgus was entirely sufficient ; and for those who are content with these objects we must concede that there neither exists nor ever has existed a constitution and civil order preferable to that of Sparta.

My object is not utopian.

… My object is to show that atheism is a rational position and that belief in God is not.

My object in adopting this arrangement is that the truths should be at one time apparent and at another time concealed.

" My sole object has been ," she wrote in the preface, " to put together all that presented itself to my own heart and mind as most persuasive, consolatory, or elevating, in such a form and order as to be easy of reference, conveniently arranged and divided, and freed from matter either hard to be understood, unattractive, or unprofitable ( to say the least ) for young and pure eyes.

My object in writing to you at present is merely to draw your attention to the subject, and to suggest a friendly conference to discuss the matter more fully.

Lee wrote, " My only object is to transmit, if possible, the truth to posterity, and do justice to our brave Soldiers.

Concerning the other things which can be considered my own: My personal secretary is to dispose of them, as executor, keeping some mementos for himself and giving some small object as a memory to my best friends.

Notable 20th century feature films are My Fair Lady ( 1964, based on the Broadway musical ); Trading Places, Ruby Sparks, Mighty Aphrodite by director Woody Allen ; Weird Science directed by John Hughes ; and the 1987 film Mannequin, a remake of the 1948 classic One Touch of Venus, the Julia Roberts hit movie Pretty Woman, She's All That with Freddie Prinze Jr., as well as S1m0ne ( featuring a computer-generated artificial intelligence as the love object ).

:*" My object is to show that the Hands of the Cause of God must be ever watchful and so soon as they find anyone beginning to oppose and protest against the Guardian of the Cause of God, cast him out from the congregation of the people of Bahá and in no wise accept any excuse from him.

My intuition of an object can occur before I experience an object if my intuition contains only the mere form of sensory experience

My intention, therefore, is not to say that Faulkner's awareness has been confined within the borders of the South, but rather that he has looked at his world as a Southerner and that presumably his outlook is Southern.

My aim in mentioning this factor obviously is not to give license to `` wild therapy '' but rather to encourage us to use the time-honored clinical casework skills we already possess, and to use them with greater confidence, precision, and professional pride.

" My ideas developed under the influence of the bohemians or rather under Hans Jæger.

Hayek also played a central role in Milton Friedman's intellectual development: " My interest in public policy and political philosophy was rather casual before I joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.

My belief is theistic, not pantheistic, following Leibniz rather than Spinoza.

When Asian Martial arts films started to draw crowds in European cinema houses, the producers of Spaghetti Westerns tried to hang on, this time not by adapting story-lines but rather by directly including Martial Arts fighting in the films, performed by Eastern actors – for example Chen Lee in My Name Is Shanghai Joe or Lo Lieh teaming up with Lee Van Cleef in The Stranger and the Gunfighter.

The LP was more rock-oriented than Read My Lips and mostly featured original songs rather than cover versions.

In My Own Utopia ( 1961 ) by Elizabeth Mann Borghese, gender exists but is dependent upon age rather than sex — genderless children mature into women, some of whom eventually become men.

In My Own Utopia ( 1961 ) by Elizabeth Mann Borghese, gender exists but is dependent upon age rather than sex — genderless children mature into women, some of whom eventually become men.

Lick My Decals Off, Baby was the first record on which the band was credited as " The Magic Band ", rather than " His Magic Band "; journalist Irwin Chusid interprets this change as " a grudging concession of its members ' at least semiautonomous humanity.

In August 2008, his lung cancer was confirmed to be terminal ; he said: " My condition is described as static and has not altered since my last bout of chemotherapy ... I am going to die sooner rather than later.

Dukes are formally addressed as ' Your Grace ', rather than ' My Lord '.

< p > just as Plato was wont to say often to Xenocrates the philosopher, who had the reputation of being rather morose in his disposition, " My good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces ," so if Marius could have been persuaded to sacrifice to the Greek Muses and Graces, he would not have put the ugliest possible crown upon a most illustrious career in field and forum, nor have been driven by the blasts of passion, ill-timed ambition, and insatiable greed upon the shore of a most cruel and savage old age .</ p >

My advice was to use more of the language of the novel, the dialogue, rather than making it up.

Nixon wrote back the next day to thank him: " My time for reading has been rather limited recently, but your book is first on my list and I am looking forward to reading it with great pleasure and interest.

Nielsen's own description of his childhood in his autobiography Min Fynske Barndom ( My Childhood in Funen ) written in his later life appears to be a rather over-romanticised account.

Named for the band members ' tendency to stare at their feet and guitar effects pedals onstage rather than interact with the audience, acts like My Bloody Valentine, and later Slowdive and Ride created a loud " wash of sound " that obscured vocals and melodies with long, droning riffs, distortion, and feedback.

" as the last words of Jesus, rather than " My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?

Bowers's assertion of " supremacy " was in contrast to Greg's more modest claim that " My desire is rather to provoke discussion than to lay down the law ".

Thrash metal band Megadeth covered Nancy Sinatra's " These Boots Are Made For Walkin ' on their 1985 debut album Killing Is My Business ... and Business Is Good !, but is more often recognized as a parody rather than a true cover, and is considered controversial because song writer Lee Hazelwood deemed Megadeth's version to be " a perversion of the original ".

The group instead released " My Sweet Rosalie "-almost a carbon copy of the previous hit, although the lyrical twist was that it was about a dog, rather than a child.

On the subject of the title, Ibsen wrote: " My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father's daughter than her husband's wife.

There have been stories that he wanted his grave marker to read either " On the whole, I would rather be in Philadelphia ", his home town, or " All in all, I would rather be in Philadelphia ", both of which are similar to a line he used in My Little Chickadee: " I'd like to see Paris before I die ... Philadelphia would do!