Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | He already had my passport in front of him , and he opened it and asked me my name , age , parents ’ names and a lot of other routine questions . |
| 2 | I had n't been in your shop two minutes before she asked me my birth date and told me her hobby is astrology . ’ |
| 3 | On the third day , I was marched before a prison officer , who perfunctorily asked me my name and address , and if I would confess to where I had concealed the body of Victor Frankenstein . |
| 4 | She said she envied me my position , where people always did what I requested . |
| 5 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 6 | The barman passed me my Jim Beam . |
| 7 | To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do . |
| 8 | The lamp-smudges seemed to swim towards me , dipping and swaying off-centre as I approached them My legs were trembling and when I put my hand against my face it was burning , and yet clammy . |
| 9 | ‘ Husbands and wives are expected to do everything together , but I felt this cost me my identity . |
| 10 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 11 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 12 | ‘ I told them my brother could be lying dead somewhere and they said they did n't care and that I was mucking them about , ’ said 18-year-old Joanne , of Stoneleigh , Surrey , yesterday . |
| 13 | The official told them my story , which my robot repeated . |
| 14 | After the doctor had finished , I told them my story , and about Ben Gunn . |
| 15 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 16 | The nurses seemed overwhelmed , and when I did find one with a moment to spare , she told me my patient had died half an hour earlier . |
| 17 | She told me my father died in the camp in 1944 . |
| 18 | He told me my brother had suddenly gone away , and would return no more for a great and uncertain length of time and had left me , and the castle , in charge of him , the dark magician . |
| 19 | ‘ Sara told me my letter was going to arrive and we decided to storm up to Leeds really quickly . |
| 20 | ‘ The very next evening a bailiff rang me up and , in a cool and calm way , he told me my home was about to be repossessed , ’ said a tearful Mrs Pratley last night . |
| 21 | ‘ He told me my attitude was n't right . |
| 22 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 23 | I was indignant when one of her friends told me my mother had believed my Methodist conviction was because I had a crush on the minister . |
| 24 | And they told me my flat 's and go , you know I can move I 'm gon na pack everything before even a house comes through . |
| 25 | They laughed at me and told me my fingers were no use for that work , which was true . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sure he would , the good man , Lord rest him , ’ said Julia and Mrs Redmond went on , ‘ I came home one night and Sarah told me my mother had told her she should start going out and enjoying herself , and I was relieved . |
| 27 | The howls of laughter from the first tee told me my heroes were about to start their round . |
| 28 | When I came round again , I could not see and Jorge told me my father was dead . ’ |
| 29 | Told me my taste was shit . |
| 30 | I had been in hospital for about two days when they told me my tumour was malignant . |