Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’ |
| 2 | I begged the King so often for my freedom that at last he and his lords agreed that I need not be a prisoner any longer . |
| 3 | I think I knew in my heart that once again he wanted to do something ‘ useful , in the sense that it 's got to be done ’ . |
| 4 | Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true . |
| 5 | ‘ It breaks my heart that his career has been ruined . |
| 6 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 7 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 8 | ‘ I know in my heart that if everything — the bike , the team , and me — are 100 per cent , I know we 'll win it . |
| 9 | It was my heart that broke when he went , yet I never had him searched for ; I durs n't think what 'd come , if he saw the lad now . |
| 10 | I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’ |
| 11 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 12 | ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless . |
| 13 | Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know . |
| 14 | As I stripped off and dipped my arms into the steaming bucket I wished with all my heart that the porcine uterus was a little short thing and not this horrible awkward shape . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 16 | John Byng in 1781 saw the revolution as reaching rather further down the social scale : " I wish with all my heart that half the turnpike roads of the kingdom were plough 'd up , which have imported London manners , and depopulated the country — I meet milkmaids on every road , with the dress and looks of Strand misses … " |
| 17 | I wish to my heart that I hat seen her , and that 's the truth . ’ |
| 18 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 19 | It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her . |
| 20 | Please give me some hope , ’ he urged , ‘ because , apart from the certainty in my heart that miluji të , I have never been so uncertain , so apprehensive at any time in my life . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 22 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 23 | I want my hair that long and er |
| 24 | washing I mean , washing my hair that is |
| 25 | Take it for a pledge of my faith that God will hold Harry safe for us , howsoever we miss him now . ’ |
| 26 | I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough . |
| 27 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 28 | ‘ There has never been jealousy on my part that she has taken my mother 's place . ’ |
| 29 | It was not until 1964 and a great deal of nagging on my part that the regulations were changed to require flight data recorders to be carried . |
| 30 | on my part that did n't get passed down and it is important that 's . |