Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 2 | Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’ |
| 3 | Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them . |
| 4 | ‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope . |
| 5 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 6 | I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’ |
| 7 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 8 | ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless . |
| 9 | It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her . |
| 10 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 11 | That affair left a permanent scar on my heart and I was afraid of reopening it . |
| 12 | I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’ |
| 13 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 14 | Something permanent happened to my heart when I watched him , a tough street kid , cooing over his offspring . |
| 15 | Ronnie , who also learned he is a grandfather , said : ‘ It broke my heart when I read her letter saying she had missed me . ’ |
| 16 | It broke my heart when I heard , and Nicolo — oh , he was so upset ! |
| 17 | ‘ It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | I watched her go with sadness in my heart because I felt for some inexplicable reason that I would never see Granny again . |
| 20 | The sight of him like that gladdened my heart because I knew his news must be good . |
| 21 | MARK ‘ HUBBA HUBBA ’ CASWELL denies ever playing one in his life ( that 's my story and I 'm sticking to it — Corky ) , but he volunteered for this job quickly enough … |
| 22 | I do put a red rinse on my hair but I ca n't remember which shade it is ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 25 | I sold my hair because I wanted to give you a present . |
| 26 | My mother said I should never cut my hair or I 'd lose my strength , like Samson in the Bible . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm over eighteen , Patsy , ’ Ellie replied , ‘ and I can wear my hair as I want . ’ |
| 29 | What 's the colour of my hair when I do n't wear Brylcreem ? |
| 30 | 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 . |