Example sentences of "[noun] [that] i [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 2 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 3 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 4 | Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September . |
| 5 | ‘ In the same battle that I lost my leg , old Pew lost his sight . |
| 6 | And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own . |
| 7 | It was only as I read your article that I realised my husband had n't been receiving an allowance for a dependant — me ! |
| 8 | It is with sadness that I begin my statement this year by referring to the loss of an inspirational founder member of RIBA Companies Ltd . |
| 9 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 10 | You will now release me : the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his . |
| 11 | cos there 's a little coffee table sort of thing that I put my script on |
| 12 | I rang my friends at Radio Leicester and Peter Crankshaw , the producer of the ‘ phone-in programme Cross Talk said ‘ Yes ’ to my suggestion that I mention my exhibition . |
| 13 | It was not until last year that I achieved my ambition to sail there . |
| 14 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |
| 15 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 16 | It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’ |
| 17 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 18 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |