Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I could do it by degrees ; it only blistered my hand in two places . |
| 2 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 3 | It just crossed my mind another thing about this matrix here is you would n't bring a those two people would you ? |
| 4 | and it just slipped my mind . |
| 5 | I think they thought they were supporting me , by saying , ‘ You 'll be OK ! ’ , but really it just increased my anxiety . |
| 6 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to see how the police train the dogs and it really made my day , ’ she said . |
| 8 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyhow , I was so busy last year doing five things at once that it really did my head in . |
| 10 | I had one letter , written after he got back to Darvel , in which he spoke of how our parting had affected him : ‘ You seemed so big-eyed and pathetic when I left , that it fairly caught my heart ; that exit was the most difficult I 've ever made in my life . ’ |
| 11 | When I saw the advertisement for the secondment , it immediately captured my interest for a whole host of reasons . |
| 12 | It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish . |
| 13 | It simply gave my study another dimension . |
| 14 | I forwarded that letter to the Department of Employment and got the unsatisfactory answer that it fully understood my constituent 's position and his reluctance to consider a bank loan at this time , but was ’ sorry in this instance not to be able to offer an alternative suggestion . ’ |
| 15 | It briefly attracted my attention , but I soon returned to the more intellectual business of marking exam scripts . |
| 16 | With all this going on , it completely slipped my mind . ’ |
| 17 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
| 18 | ‘ It completely changed my life , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I do n't know why or how it worked but it certainly took my mind off my voice . |
| 20 | I know it was n't very witty but it certainly galvanised my Dad . |
| 21 | I think it absolutely made my performance . ’ |
| 22 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 23 | It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight . |
| 24 | It never crossed my mind to wear ‘ slacks ’ at a university in the late 1950s , still less that a girl could go to one of the ancient Oxbridge men 's colleges . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ It never crossed my mind when I moved to London that Ballymena would lose their Division One status . |
| 26 | I never wanted to do anything , it never entered my head to do anything else . |
| 27 | I knew the rule well enough , but in that split second it never entered my head . |
| 28 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |