Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] my [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Referring to a polo match last year to raise money for needy Kuwaitis , he said : ‘ It was a great pleasure to me that my daughter presented prizes that day . ’ |
| 2 | When I tried to say something , she told me that my turn would come up later , and there was a strict order for speaking . |
| 3 | After last week 's edition of ‘ NSS ’ appeared , a relation told me that my column was all right , ‘ apart from the misprint , of course ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't think I 'm ungrateful for being allowed to phone to the outside world , ’ she clipped , ‘ but you should have warned me that my conversation might be bugged . |
| 5 | Thousands of people do it every day ; what 's wrong with me that my inside 's screaming that it 's not real ? |
| 6 | He died at noon , and it meant so much to me that my friends were there . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply : I do n't particularly like children ; I value my independence , the freedom to come and go , the open doors ; I want to write , and literary history tells me that my chances of succeeding as a writer and a mother are pitiful ; I hate and fear the nuclear family , the stifling atmosphere , the exploited wife and mother , the generation gap . |
| 8 | Rather self-deprecatingly , he reveals that : ‘ It became clear to me that my talents did not lie in selling . ’ |
| 9 | The next day I received a telegram informing me that my request to be transferred to clerical duties at the Ministry of the Interior had been granted . |
| 10 | My feeling towards the pregnancy was one of absolute delight and excitement , but having worked 8 years since leaving school to get where I was it was a major concern to me that my work or my position within the firm should not suffer . |
| 11 | He told me that my style was soft , slack and banal . |
| 12 | I think I 've always felt deep within me that my child was alive . |
| 13 | I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity . |
| 14 | I was half way down the alley between the walls with the hope bright before me that my patient would be improved when from nowhere an appalling explosion of sound blasted into my right ear . |
| 15 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 16 | This little ritual lasted about two minutes after which she raised her eyes and calmly told me that my money signified ‘ death ’ . |
| 17 | As it was , with Helmut gone , Jean-Claude had the time to convince me that my life in London not only lacked quality but was something of a farce . |
| 18 | I was not in the least keen , but when it became clear to me that my intervention would be frowned upon only slightly by my television clients , added to the fact that I had established good relations with George Elvin , the ACTT 's general secretary , it seemed to me that there might be some sense in intervening . |
| 19 | Do you tell me that my brother is not treated in a like manner ? ’ |
| 20 | It was here that Tony gave me my ring and told me that my funghi marinati was the best he 'd ever had in spite of him getting an earful of it . |
| 21 | On that same day visit , a counsellor put it to me that my Agincourt style visualization with its obliterating flights of white arrows might perhaps be a little too aggressive . |
| 22 | It is to claim or be committed to the fact external to me that my code is NW3 2RT . |
| 23 | Pondering on her invitation , suddenly the idea came to me that my collection of quotations and prayers could form the basis of a helpful book , and in a short time an anthology took shape under the title of Journey for a Soul . |
| 24 | As we debated the awards in Government , various colleagues told me that my arguments for reductions were ‘ egalitarian ’ and that the pay increase for judges would in no way influence the expectations of the nurses and the ancillary workers . |
| 25 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 26 | Mr. Sutton was a nice old gentleman — looked distinguished with his white hair and small white beard , a stickler for accuracy and forever telling me that my father had been one of his pupils . |
| 27 | ‘ She told me that my father is very fond of you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I had it impressed upon me that my posting to your staff was a matter of strict duty . |
| 29 | ‘ There were the customary acclamations from the populace as I rode in procession to the Guildhall this morning — indeed it seemed to me that my subjects had never before greeted me with such enthusiasm , ’ Edward told her , gazing into the fire as if reliving the morning 's events . |
| 30 | It occurred to me that my doctor was only employed to treat the symptoms of our health problems in the same way as our landlord was only treating the symptoms of the dampness . |