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Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The pain did , in fact , return the next day , but this experience had given me hope so I persevered with the lessons and now I am free of the pain for at least 95 per cent of the time .
2	Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’
3	‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope .
4	I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to .
5	It broke my heart when I heard , and Nicolo — oh , he was so upset !
6	Ronnie , who also learned he is a grandfather , said : ‘ It broke my heart when I read her letter saying she had missed me . ’
7	Something permanent happened to my heart when I watched him , a tough street kid , cooing over his offspring .
8	‘ It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up .
9	The sight of him like that gladdened my heart because I knew his news must be good .
10	I watched her go with sadness in my heart because I felt for some inexplicable reason that I would never see Granny again .
11	‘ Breakthrough 2000 ’ warmed my heart because I think : here is vision , here is faith , and here are people who are setting a target and they are wanting to move towards it . ’
12	They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’
13	I sold my hair because I wanted to give you a present .
14	He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’
15	‘ I 'm over eighteen , Patsy , ’ Ellie replied , ‘ and I can wear my hair as I want . ’
16	What 's the colour of my hair when I do n't wear Brylcreem ?
17	And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book .
18	I sincerely believe that the message was in fact received on my part for I found the poem to be particularly touching and genuine in its approach to such a difficult and delicate subject as death .
19	And that bug must have been inserted in my case before I left Helsinki — without my knowledge . ’
20	There could n't be anything wrong with my chest unless I 'd swallowed something as a child , an old thrupenny bit .
21	I finding , I 'm wearing all wool , erm and fur lining , next to my sweat my sweater 's up round my chest when I get home .
22	Something tightened in my chest as I remembered the two days since I saw Toby last .
23	I stamp my foot as I do n't want claw scrape-marks on my flesh and they convulse into defensive irate yodelling .
24	But you see it only becomes my experience as I exercise the faith that God has given to me .
25	Randall , Tim Wilson 's side-kick , was waiting outside my apartment when I hit Woodside .
26	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 .
27	She 's supporting an unemployed Turkish waiter with my money while I sit in the dark .
28	‘ Miguel , do n't you be making me spend my money if I do n't want to !
29	What I 'm saying sir is to save the inconvenience to the court is that if I could have my committal cos I do n't wan na be stuck up in this part of the country !
30	What I 'm saying sir is to save any inconvenience to the court is that if I can have my committal cos I do n't wan na be stuck up in this part of the country .