Example sentences of "my [noun] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 What can I do though , Karen , it 's not my fault that I love it , surely ?
2 He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now .
3 But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems .
4 You may gather from my behaviour that I meant you , not Jones .
5 I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict .
6 I feel now that I 've got an epitaph at the end of my life that I did something , I was n't a taker …
7 It would take far too long to tell you in detail how I identified the specific genetic patterns of these chromosomes ; you 'll have to accept my assurance that I believe I did identify them . ’
8 I rang my friends at Radio Leicester and Peter Crankshaw , the producer of the ‘ phone-in programme Cross Talk said ‘ Yes ’ to my suggestion that I mention my exhibition .
9 ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’
10 I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now .
11 It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 .
12 He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about .
13 Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell .
14 I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance .
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