Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’ |
| 2 | Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them . |
| 3 | ‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope . |
| 4 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 5 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 6 | I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’ |
| 7 | It broke my heart when I heard , and Nicolo — oh , he was so upset ! |
| 8 | Ronnie , who also learned he is a grandfather , said : ‘ It broke my heart when I read her letter saying she had missed me . ’ |
| 9 | Something permanent happened to my heart when I watched him , a tough street kid , cooing over his offspring . |
| 10 | ‘ It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up . |
| 11 | The sight of him like that gladdened my heart because I knew his news must be good . |
| 12 | I watched her go with sadness in my heart because I felt for some inexplicable reason that I would never see Granny again . |
| 13 | ‘ Breakthrough 2000 ’ warmed my heart because I think : here is vision , here is faith , and here are people who are setting a target and they are wanting to move towards it . ’ |
| 14 | Two inches on my hair and I look as if I 've had my face thinned and people start speaking in hushed voices in my presence . |
| 15 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 16 | I sold my hair because I wanted to give you a present . |
| 17 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm over eighteen , Patsy , ’ Ellie replied , ‘ and I can wear my hair as I want . ’ |
| 19 | What 's the colour of my hair when I do n't wear Brylcreem ? |
| 20 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 21 | I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough . |
| 22 | She said ‘ No , he likes my cooking and I keep the house very tidy . ’ |
| 23 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 24 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 25 | I was ready to do my part but I wanted freedom to choose what that part was to be . |
| 26 | I sincerely believe that the message was in fact received on my part for I found the poem to be particularly touching and genuine in its approach to such a difficult and delicate subject as death . |
| 27 | And that bug must have been inserted in my case before I left Helsinki — without my knowledge . ’ |
| 28 | There could n't be anything wrong with my chest unless I 'd swallowed something as a child , an old thrupenny bit . |
| 29 | I finding , I 'm wearing all wool , erm and fur lining , next to my sweat my sweater 's up round my chest when I get home . |
| 30 | Something tightened in my chest as I remembered the two days since I saw Toby last . |