Example sentences of "my [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that my saviour arrived . |
| 2 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 3 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 4 | I was afraid Richard would mind , but , as it turned out , my election had happened at a convenient time . |
| 5 | My plans seemed nothing but vainglory . ’ |
| 6 | My plans had to be very long-term at first . |
| 7 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 8 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 9 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 10 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My sons came down to help . |
| 12 | " 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry — it was a dead cert ! |
| 15 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 16 | ‘ Playground language ’ I used to call it when my sons explored that path . |
| 17 | ‘ My sons gave it to me . |
| 18 | My persistence paid off when the RCA relented and grudgingly allowed me to take my place on a joint MA course in the departments of Environmental Media and Design Education . |
| 19 | I was disappointed when my snails arrived already out of their shells — part of the pleasure for me is digging them out of their homes- but perhaps this is Chez Gerard 's gesture to British sqeamishness . |
| 20 | My heart lurched and seemed to miss a beat , but I went on reading calmly , though the print was blurred . |
| 21 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 22 | Breathing with the others , my heart began to beat very fast , and soon my fingertips were tingling. ; eventually my whole body was filled by trembling . |
| 23 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 24 | My heart began to pound . |
| 25 | My stomach lurched and my heart began to pound . |
| 26 | But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners . |
| 27 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 28 | He asked me to marry him , and you know , my heart said yes , this is the one . |
| 29 | Perhaps the only creature to rouse what could be construed as a maternal sense in my heart had been the Egyptian cat , and Nour had killed it . |
| 30 | At the cross , at the cross where I first saw the light , and the burden of my heart rolled away , it was there by faith I receive my sight and now I am happy all the day ! |