Example sentences of "my [noun] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my sanity I had to put my foot down , even though my husband , a very conventional Greek , could n't understand why . |
| 2 | So out of the kindness of my heart I agreed to come in . ’ |
| 3 | I was scolded for an hour by Bessie as the most ungrateful child in the world , and indeed with so much hate in my heart I did feel wicked . |
| 4 | For my part I wish to make it plain that I do not base my judgment on any reservation as to the correctness of the law long ago enunciated in Stilk v. Myrick . |
| 5 | And I was er doing my part I thought to change the world and get everybody into the union so we could get , get better conditions for , for everybody and all this , more money anyhow . |
| 6 | For my part I prefer to imagine that he made a mistake . |
| 7 | The proof of the pudding was in the eating , and in my case I 'd got the ingredients wrong . |
| 8 | In my experience I have found exactly the same ; driving is cheaper than rail , even on one 's own and on routes with special rail fares available , like Edinburgh to London . |
| 9 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 10 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't say anywhere in my contract I have to make them feel good , too . ’ |
| 12 | I plead guilty , partly , but in my defence I want to return to the point I signalled earlier , that a biographical approach has more political justification if the project being undertaken is one concerned with the cultural history of a marginalized group . |
| 13 | there 's a thing on one of my cloths I 've got some on |
| 14 | Therefore , for all my reasons I have chosen to display , I conclude that Mark Antony is a first class example of ‘ Things are not always being as they seem . ’ |
| 15 | Often in my progress I have had faint glimpses of the Absolute Truth , God , and daily the conviction is growing on me that He alone is real and all else is unreal . ’ |
| 16 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 17 | It worries me , because it 's there again tomorrow … in my mind I 've got a fixed routine , but I know I have n't got one really … |
| 18 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 19 | and er , Miss I told Mrs that I ca n't write and she goes you 'd better write dear she said you got a test , I said it 's not my fault I 've got a , a sore hand she , I goes |
| 20 | and er , Miss I told Mrs that I ca n't write and she goes you 'd better write dear she said you got a test , I said it 's not my fault I 've got a , a sore hand she , I goes |
| 21 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 22 | Joan while I remember in my car I 've got some things that I want your professional advice about . |
| 23 | No being what I thought I was a man in those days I was n't really interested in them , but I know there was competitions and er I believe there was different numbers posted on windows and if you got the right number you got a prize but I remember Palfry Park I 'm having trouble with my eyes I 've got over-active tear ducts and |
| 24 | But I keep ra every time I close my eyes I keep wondering if she 's gon na pop up with the same er |
| 25 | I I 've used , in my script I 've used a very loose language , like er , very , er , well , non-standard English then , because they now , erm , you know , especially after having it banned . |
| 26 | Families feel very rejected by professionals erm , in my research I 've found that er , the families of younger sufferers tend to be involved in treatment but they feel very much that they 're under the microscope , that they disapprove , that they 're seen as being pathological families . |
| 27 | As a starting point for my research I decided to find out about the numbers of teachers who worked in secondary schools , the posts that they held and the distribution of men and women teachers to various posts , together with their qualifications and salaries . |
| 28 | They asked me into their classes to watch them teach , they gave me time for interviews , they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I erm at various points in my research I attempted to feed back to them some of the material I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this . |
| 29 | On my sweater I have included Swiss darning , knots ( for the small white flowers ) , long stitches to create the ferns and large white flowers . |
| 30 | In possessing her , he is both taken out of , and placed in possession of , himself : ‘ She gave me the idea of my manliness I had grown to need . ’ |