Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 2 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 3 | For a while though , I had a psychological block to sailing in fresher winds because I thought my weight and strength was not up to it . |
| 4 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 5 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It is the concrete being that reasons ; pass a number of years and I find my mind in a new place : how ? the whole man moves ; paper logic is but the record of it . ’ |
| 10 | Another twelve days till I get my canoe . |
| 11 | It is years since I risked my neck . |
| 12 | So how did Tony manage to gain the confidence of the dealers , ‘ It took at least two or three weeks before I took my camera out and that was probably one of the hardest things I did . |
| 13 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 14 | Er the mortgage is for fifty thousand pounds and I think my life insurance policy would pay out about forty five thousand pounds . |
| 15 | " One night , " said Carter , " I started to thumb through its pages and I called my wife , Rosalyn , and I called my daughter , Amy , who climbed into my lap , and we spent several hours studying the beautiful history that this book portrays of Persian , of Iran , of its people … " |
| 16 | as you say like there 's something funny about cats cos I opened my wardrobe yesterday to get a coat out . |
| 17 | And did n't really know anything about rabbits and I know my aunt it 's a sort of family story that she took her doe to the buck and the buck had babies . |
| 18 | It was difficult to raise the vein as the filly staggered around , but she came to rest for a few seconds and I dug my thumb into the jugular furrow . |
| 19 | So Mary 's looking after the children while I have my hair done . ’ |
| 20 | There was a warm wind on my face and hands as I made my way towards Mr Marr 's place . |
| 21 | The following day was the end of term and I shall never forget the shock when Miss Smith read the Class Examination results for I thought my name would never come . |
| 22 | I have a real weakness for clothes and I like my mum to help me choose them , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ I wo n't , ’ I promised and he went off to find his mates while I made my way home to start the chores . |
| 24 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll bash my head against the walls until I break my skull . |