Sentence examples for my raising from inspiring English sources

"Her being in the race has been a big help in my raising campaign funds".

So I line up my raising agents, dust off my pinny, and embark upon the baking equivalent of Iron Man.

What is the difference between an arm rising and my raising it, between what merely happens and what I do?

De Bois, who recently laid down "red lines" on competition and the 2013 deadline that he did not want crossed, said: "The whole purpose of my raising the stakes in the debate was to get the other side heard.

I like this idea – and I admit it sounds much more nurturing than the protocol in my "raising the standards of swimming" fantasy, where the lifeguard roams the side with a megaphone barking: "Lane six, drop your head a little!

"Subject to my raising financial support there could be a restructure of some of the shareholding," Dennis said.

The exchanged home exceeds even my raised expectations.

"Pepper spray," he whispers in answer to my raised eyebrows.

The powerful thump of its wings hit my raised paddle, almost knocking it from my hands.

My parents divorced when I was 5, and my mother raised my brother and me.

"My parents raised my son," he said.