Example sentences of "my [noun] [vb past] [conj] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in 1921 , a slight chill and a few spots on my chest meant that I was away from school for a couple of days . |
| 2 | ‘ My mum died when I was four . |
| 3 | ‘ My parents died when I was twelve . |
| 4 | My parents died when I was twenty , my sister moved up to Lancashire and became a nurse and got married , and that was the family gone . |
| 5 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 6 | ‘ My parents died when I was a teenager , you see . |
| 7 | My parents died when I was only eight . |
| 8 | When my parents went and I was left alone I cried for most of the night . |
| 9 | My marriage failed and I was doing about one job every six months — I was on the fringe of things . |
| 10 | I thanked him , he saluted , and the two of them walked on My guard said that I was crazy ; I could have run into terrible trouble , but I had been lucky and now I had only to choose a beautiful new bicycle . |
| 11 | At approximately 1,500 feet I opened my eyes again and to my joy realised that I was very much lower down . |
| 12 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 13 | I 've always been poor — my husband died when I was 34 — and this man 's very well-off . |
| 14 | The other thing my father said when I was |
| 15 | Finally , my father came and I was discharged and taken home . |
| 16 | My father died when I was fifteen . |
| 17 | My father died when I was five , and left me a large sum of money in trust until my twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 18 | My father died when I was only two . |
| 19 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 20 | My father died when I was one week old , so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby . |
| 21 | ‘ My father died when I was twenty , ’ Travis responded , but his voice seemed distant , as if he was forcing it . |
| 22 | ‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’ |
| 23 | I got home that night full of excitement , a state which was quickly changed when my mother discovered that I was well and truly inundated with horse fleas . |
| 24 | ‘ My mother died when I was born , and he died shortly after . |
| 25 | My mother died when I was two . |
| 26 | ‘ My mother died when I was very small , in transit to the colony on Mantikroz . |
| 27 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 28 | ‘ My mother died when I was ten , ’ she answered Tom Russell carefully . |
| 29 | ‘ My mother died when I was little more than a child , ’ he informed her quietly . |