Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [verb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 2 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 3 | Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby . |
| 4 | Petra surpassed anything that I had visualised in my kitchen fantasy-life . |
| 5 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 6 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 7 | With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence . |
| 8 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 9 | When I saw his blue eyes open wide in surprise , I felt very sorry I had lied , and that evening , as soon as I found Joe alone for a moment , I confessed to him that I had lied about my visit to Miss Havisham . |
| 10 | The discipline that I had experienced in my schools in Kingston was just not there . |
| 11 | All of this was hidden behind the ‘ normal ’ lifestyle that I tried to project to my family and friends , ’ days Paula Farrance , 28 , from St Albans . |
| 12 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 13 | He gave me a hard stare , which said all that I needed to know about my fate if he failed to beat me . |