Example sentences of "my [noun] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | You may gather from my behaviour that I meant you , not Jones . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 … |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about . |
8 | 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 . |