Example sentences of "my [noun pl] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 3 | My views affect me as a person . |
| 4 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ All right , then : one of my contacts tipped me off . ’ |
| 6 | Jamie shoved one hand down the back of my cords to keep me from falling on my face , and put the other hand on to my forehead , murmuring something . |
| 7 | Such an appeal was not to be resisted , but first I had to tell Meehan that if I did look into his case , I must feel myself free to come to whatever conclusions my investigations led me , ‘ whether in your favour or not ’ . |
| 8 | My notes told me what was to happen next , but my brain no longer knew how to move plot and people forward . |
| 9 | I had to do private and public penance , take a solemn vow that , after I was ordained , I would accept whatever duties my superiors gave me . ’ |
| 10 | But when I returned from military service in 1960 , my employers asked me to represent them south of the border , in that troutless land beyond Mr Hadrian 's Wall known as England . |
| 11 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 12 | On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch . |
| 13 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 14 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 15 | ‘ It must be my sins making me restless , unless it 's something I ate . ’ |
| 16 | My sins found me out : the pain went , but I was so sick and ill that we had to come home . |
| 17 | ‘ When I go to my clients to collect I always ask if they have any hand-knitted woollen garments they do n't need , and if I 'm lucky they give me some . |
| 18 | My screams woke me . |
| 19 | mm , mm my shoulders hurting me |
| 20 | ‘ Then perhaps my eyes deceived me ? |
| 21 | Texas 's on-board video circuitry is excellent for vanilla VGA and for all my eyes tell me , I could be hacking away at the Hyundai . |
| 22 | I do n't want them to ask me any more questions , so what I do is I lie back in the sofa and shut my eyes like I 'm asleep . |
| 23 | ‘ Not with my eyes closed I do n't . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Cabochon , do my eyes deceive me ? |
| 25 | Till my eyes forget me |
| 26 | My eyes fail me like every other part of my body . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And are my eyes deceiving me or are you not the girl who ruined the broomstick display last year ? |
| 28 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 29 | I have a ringing in my ears like I 've been smacked around the head . |
| 30 | Or were my ears playing me up ? ’ |