Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [verb] i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mum said I was too easily led |
| 2 | Whit says : ‘ My mum thought I was getting an education and was sending me £200 a month for rent and food . |
| 3 | I knew I had a drink problem — even my sister said I was an alcoholic . |
| 4 | When I was about to take O-level Art and my teacher said I was a disaster , my father was shamed into giving me an intensive course ( 'I ca n't have a daughter not passing ’ ) and taught me painting , pastel drawing , cross-hatching , line drawing . |
| 5 | ‘ By the time my friend arrived I was exhausted and in a foul mood and so was Graeme . |
| 6 | I scribbled 2 or 3 lines to my friend saying I was sorry circumstances had arisen to prevent my meeting him , sent the note off to my groom , and went on reading the ms . |
| 7 | ‘ At a low point during my stay in Japan when I was having trouble with the language and the culture I phoned my father to say I was coming home , ’ recalls the black sheep with the black belt . |
| 8 | And of course he came to see my father , and my father thought I was a bit young . |
| 9 | Yeah , my mate thought I was going to his , his old man 's a builder and er , he 's a good worker and he 's trouble getting the money out of him . |
| 10 | My headmaster thought I was much too young to try for Oxford , but I went up in March 1959 to do the scholarship exam with two boys from the year above me at school . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing in my letter suggested I was a man . |
| 12 | My dad thought I was joking . |
| 13 | I got a lot of stick for that at first but when my tutor realised I was actually producing work it was okay . |
| 14 | I left my doughnut to show I was coming back . |
| 15 | Michael : And then my girl-friend said I was wonderful . |
| 16 | He got the shock of his life when he found out who I was and asked if my mother knew I was there . |
| 17 | ‘ When I was fifteen my mother thought I was still a child … but that year I discovered life , rock and roll and love with a boy named Brownie Hansen … ’ |
| 18 | When my mother died I was a military attache at one of our embassies in eastern Europe . |
| 19 | " It was what my mother said I was to be called before she died . |
| 20 | I was truanting from school when I was about nine , and to be truthful my mother said I was totally out of hand . |