Example sentences of "my [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ My sons gave it to me . |
| 5 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 6 | My heart gave me an unforgettable jolt when I thought him to be headless ; yet there was no blood staining the fresh , even snow . |
| 7 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
| 8 | Still , I 'm not swinging the lead , my GP sent me here . |
| 9 | ‘ My GP told me not to worry and to drink more fluids . |
| 10 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 11 | My GP visited me and I still have the drawing he did of the cancer they had found in my kidney . |
| 12 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 13 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ All right , then : one of my contacts tipped me off . ’ |
| 15 | My resistance surprised him , and he shouted for help . |
| 16 | Although I was about to confront him , my experience told me that he was — well , I 've no words for it : on a different plane of reality . |
| 17 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | He showed that he understood Lisner 's thoughts and encouraged him in his dream ; Lisner wrote to me that ‘ John was excited about my plans … my enthusiasm stimulated him and his own infectious enthusiasm affected me in turn . ’ |
| 20 | After a month the crystals cleared and my vet advised me to keep him on Hills Science Diet CD . |
| 21 | Copper still would n't move but my vet said it was important to get him to his box away from the flies . |
| 22 | My notes told me what was to happen next , but my brain no longer knew how to move plot and people forward . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | They did n't hurt exactly , it was more of a niggly pain but I worked it out to about once every four minutes or so and my mum said we 'd better ring the hospital . |
| 25 | Well , my mum said it was a bit pathetic , you know , it 's almost like , you know , erm , the |
| 26 | My Mum said I was too easily led |
| 27 | No I do n't think I will because he will sit there sort of , might , when he rang up once , right , my mum said I think there 's a poofter on the phone |
| 28 | But after they found out I was sleeping with my boyfriend , my mum said she was n't going to put me on the Pill because it was the easiest way out . |
| 29 | I 'll have to go down there on a Saturday , my mum said she 'd take me down there . |
| 30 | Well , my mum said he should put them through the letter box . |