Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not very good at them Mum gave me that one it 's been in quite good condition but
2 Me mum said I should do a show concentrating on Paul 's work , ’ says Paul ( left ) .
3 My heart told me she would n't .
4 My heart gave me an unforgettable jolt when I thought him to be headless ; yet there was no blood staining the fresh , even snow .
5 Brushing my hair set my teeth on edge but I finally got most of it laying down , and at least you could n't see my new bumps from the front .
6 For the first time in my life , my hair behaved itself and curled round my face in a manner which I considered most flattering , and my make-up went on well on a skin which did n't have one spot or blemish .
7 One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium .
8 Still , I 'm not swinging the lead , my GP sent me here .
9 My GP told me not to worry and to drink more fluids .
10 Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London .
11 My GP visited me and I still have the drawing he did of the cancer they had found in my kidney .
12 ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too .
13 My resistance surprised him , and he shouted for help .
14 I crawled out from under the back of the tractor just in case anybody thought to peer into the barn , and was about to use the lawn-mower for cover when my foot caught something hard and suddenly I was face down on the ground again .
15 Can I risk having her curse me 10 years hence because my ideology ruined her education ?
16 Although I was about to confront him , my experience told me that he was — well , I 've no words for it : on a different plane of reality .
17 Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition .
18 My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man .
19 He showed that he understood Lisner 's thoughts and encouraged him in his dream ; Lisner wrote to me that ‘ John was excited about my plans … my enthusiasm stimulated him and his own infectious enthusiasm affected me in turn . ’
20 After a month the crystals cleared and my vet advised me to keep him on Hills Science Diet CD .
21 Copper still would n't move but my vet said it was important to get him to his box away from the flies .
22 I was a little late in deciding what I wanted to do with my life , but my decision had nothing to do with Adam .
23 They did n't hurt exactly , it was more of a niggly pain but I worked it out to about once every four minutes or so and my mum said we 'd better ring the hospital .
24 Well , my mum said it was a bit pathetic , you know , it 's almost like , you know , erm , the
25 My Mum said I was too easily led
26 No I do n't think I will because he will sit there sort of , might , when he rang up once , right , my mum said I think there 's a poofter on the phone
27 But after they found out I was sleeping with my boyfriend , my mum said she was n't going to put me on the Pill because it was the easiest way out .
28 I 'll have to go down there on a Saturday , my mum said she 'd take me down there .
29 Well , my mum said he should put them through the letter box .
30 A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go .
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