Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [subord] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Ronnie , who also learned he is a grandfather , said : ‘ It broke my heart when I read her letter saying she had missed me . ’ |
2 | Something permanent happened to my heart when I watched him , a tough street kid , cooing over his offspring . |
3 | The sight of him like that gladdened my heart because I knew his news must be good . |
4 | I wrote in great haste and under some excitement , from the statements to which I referred , [ Palmerston 's remarks ] and plead this as my excuse if I expressed what I did not really intend . |
5 | I knew Brian understood my decision as I understood his . |
6 | Suzie touches my fingers as I leave her . |
7 | I gave my evidence — he adjusted the brakes in my presence after I found them inefficient . |
8 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
9 | I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery . |
10 | I have had the same trouble now and again , but if I control my jaw when I yawn it does not happen so much . |
11 | ( ‘ I could n't make up my mind whether I wanted it or not , and then I just panicked . ’ ) |
12 | But so much happened , and it had slipped my mind until I realised your father and my mother must have known each other in the past . |
13 | With this fancy in my mind as I watch them pass , sometimes in that delusive light of Venice those ships seem to blur before me and I see them transmuted into vessels of the past . |
14 | I 'd give this Sir Benson Craig a piece of my mind if I met him , that I would . |
15 | So I feel happier in my mind if I do it every day . |
16 | I 'm more satisfied in my mind when I know it 's clean . |
17 | Almost as if you understood what was in my mind when I designed them . ’ |
18 | Boy , am I going to give him a piece of my mind when I see him . |
19 | You use my deodorant if I leave it in there . |
20 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
21 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |
22 | The instructor must have heard my screams as I felt myself being dragged out as I gasped for air . |
23 | I did n't drive to work , so he would n't recognize my car when I followed him . |
24 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
25 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
26 | They both swore it would always remain my home while I wanted it , and so it did . |
27 | So he said erm I said to the woman I went to the court this morning so he said when you explain to me he said I 've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad tha he said I owed sixty two pound so he said I said to the woman in the court how can I pay this the sixty two pounds when you 've frozen my account ? |
28 | In fact as soon as I walked in I was n't allowed to go to my desk until I promised her I would get the computer out |
29 | I thought it was my spine but I could move my limbs so I thought it could n't be too bad . ’ |
30 | He filched them from my wardrobe when I kicked him out . |