Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [conj] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only wish that my father could know that I 'm at last setting up on my own … |
| 2 | One middle-aged daughter put it this way : ‘ I suddenly realized that my mother and I had changed roles . |
| 3 | ‘ But you just have to put it all behind you and I just hope that my back trouble will clear up and I 'll be able to start playing again soon ’ . |
| 4 | Can I just say that my father who is eighty four , is caring for my mother er for the past eleven years , and we keep sort of saying well is it not time that she should maybe go into hospital ? |
| 5 | ‘ I hardly think that my demonstration , added to that fact , would make everything clear , ’ Catherine objected . |
| 6 | From the co-operative principle , I also assumed that my neighbour was telling the truth ( there was no evidence that she was lying , hallucinating , or playing a practical joke ) . |
| 7 | After a bout of love , I often find that my brain is at its sharpest , I see things clearly ; I feel poetry coming to me . |
| 8 | When I listened though , as I often did when my curiosity over-ran my actions , he was different from the rest . |
| 9 | I immediately realised that my jaw was broken . |
| 10 | That 's something that I strongly support and my Party does , and I believe a vast majority of the country support . |
| 11 | And I almost added that my hair would probably fall out if I had to spend too much time with him . |
| 12 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 13 | ‘ The farm originally belonged to our parents ; like Hanne and Jens , they hoped their only son would take over from them , and , like Svend , I too decided that my career lay elsewhere . ’ |
| 14 | Dorrie had helped me finally dress and my father and I went to the Church . |
| 15 | ‘ She also said that my father sees you as the son he never had . ’ |
| 16 | She therefore proposed that my father should pretend to fall in love with her difficult and very homesick Italian friend so that it would be clear to her parents that there was no hope of getting him for Fiona . ’ |
| 17 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 18 | ‘ They also found that my kneecap was not quite straight so they moved it over . |
| 19 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 20 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 21 | It simply said that my father had died : it asked me to come home . |