Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [vb past] i [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 2 | I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me . |
| 3 | ‘ Then my mum told me it was terrible . ’ |
| 4 | My mum told me it was nude ! |
| 5 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 6 | My mind told me she could n't . |
| 7 | ‘ In the second week , I knew what I wanted from the allowed foods , my body told me what I needed . |
| 8 | My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight . |
| 9 | My nose told me there was a problem . |
| 10 | He said , ‘ My caddie told me I had to get it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My amah told me you left in a hurry after a phone call from a man ! ’ |
| 12 | We noticed a tall , dark , very fashionable lady , and my friend told me who she was . |
| 13 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 14 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 15 | ‘ My daughter told me she 'd spilt nail varnish on my new bedroom carpet . ’ |
| 16 | My uncle told me you were beautiful , but he did not tell me how beautiful . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My secretary told me you 'd rung . |
| 18 | I had a few problems when I was about thirty and my doctor told me it was just my age and the menopause ! |
| 19 | My Dad told me he saw a headless chicken run round a farmyard once . |
| 20 | To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do . |
| 21 | Two days ago my neighbour told me she saw him with a crowd down an entry . |
| 22 | When my master found me I had dismounted and was squatting on a patch of snow , busily emptying the contents of my stomach . |
| 23 | My brother gave me his guitar , and I inherited a violin , which I learned well . |
| 24 | Later , my mother told me they had to lip read : they could n't hear each other speak for the noise of the looms . |
| 25 | Oh , yes , I was only a girl , and he was only a boy — but when my mother told me we would n't be coming back , and that I 'd very soon forget him , I believed her . ’ |
| 26 | My mother told me I was more domesticated than my sisters . |
| 27 | ‘ My mother told me it was like having red hair . |
| 28 | My mother told me it was six ; I could not feel the lateness in the day , other than the westward blare of a reluctantly falling sun . |
| 29 | My mother told me it . |
| 30 | And she said , my mother brought me it . |