Example sentences of "i [vb past] [coord] [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 2 | During 1965–1968 , I rethought and redeveloped my work on semantics until it was accepted for a Ph.D . |
| 3 | I bent and put my hand on Debbie 's heart . |
| 4 | I rose and groped my way towards the fire door . |
| 5 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 6 | I nodded and drank my drink . |
| 7 | I frowned and brought my head up , suddenly thinking that it might just be stuffed ; perhaps somebody was having a laugh at my expense . |
| 8 | I frowned and rubbed my jaw , looking thoughtful . |
| 9 | I turned and saw my saviour , the wench with black curly hair from the tavern . |
| 10 | I turned and pushed my way through a group of people to the end of the room . |
| 11 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 12 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 13 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 14 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
| 15 | She 's only fourteen , I decided and spoke my thoughts aloud , saying , ‘ She 's so young . ’ |
| 16 | I watched and held my breath , but to my relief she only brought one lump out of her bag , and that the smallest of the two , which she gave to me and I put it quickly into my cart . |
| 17 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 18 | I blew and picked my nose clean , washed my hands , cleaned the razor , nail-clipper , shower and basin , rinsed out the flannel and combed my hair . |
| 19 | I screamed and rattled my chains ; they turned sluggishly away as if to say that one way or another they would eventually dine on my flesh . |
| 20 | I laughed and thrashed my hand up and down on the arm of my chair in an ecstasy of amusement . |
| 21 | Up yours , I thought and got my head down to extract everything I could . |
| 22 | I was born and brought up in this town and I thought and hoped my future was here . |
| 23 | so 's tonight I 'm a different person cos I 've put make up and I went and got my hair done and I feel different tonight but I do n't feel under pressure that I have to wear make up all the time cos nobody treats me any different whether I 've got make up on or whether |
| 24 | I went and got my coffee and leant against the bench , away from him . |
| 25 | I wanted to make sure they were long enough , and I went and started at Christmas , and I , er , this is so gross , and I just felt the scummiest thing , it was sort of , it 's not exactly how you wan na feel just before you get married , and then I went and had my legs shaved er waxed . |
| 26 | You know I went and showed my dogs over there and afterwards we all went to the pub and we had one hell of a time and then I had to sing would you believe it ? |
| 27 | He was sitting at his desk and I went and put my arms round him from behind , and nuzzled his ear . |
| 28 | I shivered and stamped my feet . |
| 29 | I shivered and cursed my master . |
| 30 | Then I fell and banged my knee-cap on a stone and it 's pretty stiff now . |