Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My life depended on my coolness , and I fought to control my murderous passions . |
| 2 | I liked it when Kaptan described his moment of deliverance , the point at which I tried to shoot my old comrade in arms in the back , then the desperate fumble to see who 'd get their shots off first . |
| 3 | I tried to relax my tightening nerves with mind pictures of the most beautiful landscapes of the Rambles . |
| 4 | Turning to Estella , I tried to control my trembling voice . |
| 5 | I decided the best thing to do was keep busy , so I tried to recall my antenatal classes — I could n't remember a thing . |
| 6 | I looked at Inspector Drew for several seconds while I tried to marshal my tumbling thoughts . |
| 7 | I tried to clear my sleepy brain . |
| 8 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 9 | Now and again I stopped to stretch my aching back . |
| 10 | I 'd made my usual lousy start , Niki had made a reasonable one and Clay [ Regazzoni ] had made a super start . |
| 11 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 12 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual squat . |
| 13 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 14 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual home and I still think Bob Seger is crap . |
| 15 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 16 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 17 | I 'd practised my straightforward laugh , |
| 18 | I wish I 'd got my woolly hat . |
| 19 | Having gone that long undetected by the enemies sitting almost next to me , I 'd got my over-confident bravado back with interest . |
| 20 | It 's just that I wish I 'd got my wretched memory back some other way . ’ |
| 21 | And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder ! |
| 22 | By 9.15 Callahan and Ted still had n't showed at Jocko 's , and I 'd forgotten my webbed gloves . |
| 23 | I 'd stuffed my little folded-up square of Dream Interpretations in my jeans ' pocket . |
| 24 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 25 | They what they knew after I 'd had my fresh claim interview or something like that ? |
| 26 | ‘ I — I came to find my real father . ’ |
| 27 | I began to abandon my Western habits and within minutes crossed the bridge into the Sheikha 's world , self-contained , unhurried , conscious of movement , aware of sound , small sips of fragrant coffee as against gulps of hot tea . |
| 28 | Instead , I began to follow my distraught friend at a suitable distance . |
| 29 | I enjoyed painting my little armoured scout car and sticking my head out of the lid . |
| 30 | ‘ But I knew there was a book in me somewhere and so I decided to put my personal experiences of the war down on paper . ’ |