Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like a pub where I do n't meet my customers . |
| 2 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 3 | I 'm not going to let her slide out of it or I do n't get my scoop . ’ |
| 4 | She stated : " Although I have not achieved my goal of becoming chief constable , … |
| 5 | And although I have since had my own shows in West End galleries in London , the excitement of being part of the Summer Exhibition has never worn thin . |
| 6 | Of course , I 'm always glad of an excuse to reprint rather than write , although I did n't intend my prose to be quite so timeless . |
| 7 | And although I did n't like my pig wife or my pig mother come to that — I was very fond of my pig father . |
| 8 | And I should imagine that the light paper 's the backing paper and that I 've already glued my work on the paper and my my picture is already glued just there . |
| 9 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |
| 10 | It may seem that I 've never taken my title seriously , but below the skin I have great respect for it , and for this house too and the men who have gone before me who made it . |
| 11 | The woman was definitely shocked , and by the fact that I 've never bathed my child . |
| 12 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 13 | I know this sorried affair is wrong , that I end up breaking my daughter 's heart , or upsetting my son , son 's ha , but I do n't think I can give up Steve ? |
| 14 | I sent him a bundle of clippings that I thought amply documented my charge . |
| 15 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 16 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 17 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 18 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 19 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 20 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 21 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 22 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 23 | It has given me an insight into the way that I behave and that the way that I think definitely affects my actions . |
| 24 | I suppose I mean that I do n't think my husband would be a nature poet if he did n't live now , here , in England . |
| 25 | It 's just that I do n't think my English is so good any more . |
| 26 | For my part I wish to make it plain that I do not base my judgment on any reservation as to the correctness of the law long ago enunciated in Stilk v. Myrick . |
| 27 | I did n't relish this : not least because it meant that I did n't break my silence until the cheese course . |
| 28 | This is so much my own trouble that I did n't want my husband 's name to come into it . |
| 29 | And after that I decided that I did n't want my family . |
| 30 | I felt like kissing the dinghy , and I 'm not sure that I did n't put my lips to the rough friendly fabric of her snub nose . |