Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plans seemed nothing but vainglory . ’ |
| 2 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 5 | ‘ My sons gave it to me . |
| 6 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All right , then : one of my contacts tipped me off . ’ |
| 8 | Such an appeal was not to be resisted , but first I had to tell Meehan that if I did look into his case , I must feel myself free to come to whatever conclusions my investigations led me , ‘ whether in your favour or not ’ . |
| 9 | My notes told me what was to happen next , but my brain no longer knew how to move plot and people forward . |
| 10 | I had to do private and public penance , take a solemn vow that , after I was ordained , I would accept whatever duties my superiors gave me . ’ |
| 11 | Both her hands around my penis , cosseting it , restraining it , I licked her neck , the backs of my fingers prinked her pink nipples . |
| 12 | But when I returned from military service in 1960 , my employers asked me to represent them south of the border , in that troutless land beyond Mr Hadrian 's Wall known as England . |
| 13 | On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch . |
| 14 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 15 | My sins found me out : the pain went , but I was so sick and ill that we had to come home . |
| 16 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |
| 17 | Then I said , or perhaps one of my voices said it for me , " I do n't know . |
| 18 | My screams woke me . |
| 19 | ‘ Then perhaps my eyes deceived me ? |
| 20 | My eyes followed his every move . |
| 21 | A prickling sensation between my eyes made my nose run and white-hot adrenalin scalded the subcutaneous layer beneath my skin . |
| 22 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 23 | I followed , even more warily , and my eyes confirmed what I did not want to believe . |
| 24 | My eyes caressed her body languidly . |
| 25 | And and my ears went you know , what on earth are you spending all this money for on that |
| 26 | ‘ How my knees held me , I do n't know . |
| 27 | My guards shot him . ’ |
| 28 | I think my guards bribed him to let us pass . |
| 29 | One of my gentlemen taught it to me . |
| 30 | I recoiled so much I thought I was going to topple backwards but the cable round my legs kept me anchored to the beer keg . |