Example sentences of "[subord] my [noun] die [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since my dad died she had got smaller and smaller . |
| 2 | But we have little in common , and since my mother died we have n't had much to do with one another . |
| 3 | ‘ Look — before my mum died she told me Jozef Taczek had confessed to her , confessed that he 'd murdered Mills because of the betrayal . |
| 4 | Before my father died I cast it all aside , lived as I imagined I wanted to live . |
| 5 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 6 | Before my mother died she told me of a letter to me , held in the bank , which I was to receive on her death . |
| 7 | ‘ And sometimes I 've wondered if it was my fault … after my mother died I felt so lost , it was as if I needed someone to fill the void she left . |
| 8 | After my mother died he decided to stay on and make a living hunting , so I 've grown up here with Annamese boys and girls of my own age . |
| 9 | After my husband died I had to spend the winter of 1973–4 alone in Lamb House . |
| 10 | But after my mam died I had nobody to look after the baby , so I could n't go any more . " |
| 11 | When my mother died I was a military attache at one of our embassies in eastern Europe . |
| 12 | But when my mother died he could n't handle it here any more . |
| 13 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 14 | I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country . |