Example sentences of "my [noun pl] and i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bell was dismissive of the criticisms , commenting : ‘ I have managed to get through campaigns without knowing the names of my opponents and I think I will be reasonably successful this time , too . ’ |
| 2 | I 've done my exams and I think I 've done well in them . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd pet ( the mice ) ‘ em , and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they were dead — because they were so little ’ |
| 4 | A nurse came in and asked for my X-rays and I remembered I had forgotten them . |
| 5 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 6 | In 1975 , my engineers and I realised we should enter a new area of application — robots for arc welding . |
| 7 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 8 | As for Andropulos , several of my officers and I think he 's a leery customer and a suspicious one . |
| 9 | Back then I think my girlfriends and I took it for granted that washing regularly was an exclusively feminine pursuit . |
| 10 | You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today . |
| 11 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 12 | She ran into my arms and I held her close . |
| 13 | My friends and I use it quite a lot . ’ |
| 14 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 15 | Since I retired I 've had more time on my hands and I pass it , you might say , in reading and reflection on my area of interest . |
| 16 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 17 | Hastings said : ‘ I am very proud of my boys and I thought we played very well , especially the forwards . |
| 18 | of the electorate — it is impossible for my colleagues and me to involve ourselves in all the work of the House . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State for Scotland will recall that , when my colleagues and I met him and the Secretary of State for the Environment during the consultation period on local government funding , we argued our case on local income tax and pursued the issue of costing . |
| 20 | In no time my colleagues and I found ourselves organizing not counselling sessions but darts matches in the local pub circuit . |