Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 2 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 3 | ‘ It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up . |
| 4 | ‘ I closed off … yes , I did close off my heart because you had closed off yours , ’ she insisted quickly , her words coming in a rush . |
| 5 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 6 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 7 | ‘ There has never been jealousy on my part that she has taken my mother 's place . ’ |
| 8 | It proves my case that he has n't been in touch again . |
| 9 | My motive is owing to no dislike I have for him but methinks it would reflect a little upon my Pamela if she had married a man for his estate when she had rather have had another . |
| 10 | There could n't be anything wrong with my chest unless I 'd swallowed something as a child , an old thrupenny bit . |
| 11 | He did n't exactly put his foot on my chest but he had me all right . |
| 12 | And the second issue is in my experience if you have a seven hour on a Saturday or a Sunday you get a poor turn out . |
| 13 | Other ones here , an anonymous call from Birmingham , I have been beaten up weekly by my ex-husband because he 's been told to pay more . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
| 15 | He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . " |
| 16 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 17 | Francis , flanked by secretary Graham Mackrell , who was waving the fax above his head , said : ‘ I did n't even refer the offer to my chairman because I have a mandate that David is not for sale . |
| 18 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 19 | It would probably kill my mum but I had to tell them . |
| 20 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 21 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
| 22 | Well that 's the only thing , I have to go with my mum cos I have n't for ages ! |
| 23 | My sister and I had a hazy idea that he sold rabbit skins from a sort of tray suspended from his neck — but as he was always beautifully neat and clean I do n't know where we got this idea from . |
| 24 | ‘ I had just reached the age where such things were becoming of interest to me , and it was n't too long after the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth when my sister and I had collected as many photos as we could lay our hands on . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years . |
| 26 | my sister cos she 's frightened of the bombs ! |
| 27 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 28 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 29 | I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more . |
| 30 | It was my blood because he had given me mouth to mouth resuscitation . |