Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , he offered me a place ( perhaps out of consideration for my father ) , and I duly began my undergraduate career . |
| 2 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 3 | Other special Air Force camps were built in different parts of Germany and it was in these that I eventually spent my rime as a prisoner . |
| 4 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
| 5 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 6 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 7 | The postman handed me a letter as I eventually reached my Pop 's house — it was an offer of a council house . |
| 8 | The great problem I faced , when I eventually obtained my degree in zoology , was that to convert my childhood fascination into an adult career I would have to carry out experiments on animals . |
| 9 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 10 | I slowly shook my head . |
| 11 | I did , but I slowly shook my head . |
| 12 | He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours . |
| 13 | When I started on my mental journey ; the way seemed to be dark and impossible , yet I slowly found my way ; and so can everyone else . |
| 14 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 15 | So I merely downplayed my reply . |
| 16 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 17 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 18 | I gently prised my wrist free . |
| 19 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 20 | I only knew my mother and grandmother and life was not easy — we often went hungry . |
| 21 | Whilst I was in prison I only saw my daughter twice . |
| 22 | Actually I 've rather hurried through that objective part of our I only had my time to bring before you one other very important issue and two other pieces of information . |
| 23 | I only used my cape at home . |
| 24 | I suddenly heard my father 's voice telling me that all acting is mere imitation . |
| 25 | As I started to speak to him , I suddenly brought my knee up , as hard as possible , into his crutch . |
| 26 | I sat like a Hector until I suddenly remembered my stomach and began noisily to vomit . |
| 27 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 28 | I never saw anything , I just heard my father telling my mother — ’ She broke off abruptly , one hand rising guiltily to her mouth . |
| 29 | But mostly I just felt my power ! |
| 30 | I just felt my mind rebelling against it all the time . |