Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " 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 | I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 4 | Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’ |
| 5 | Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them . |
| 6 | He lets me have my freedom and he 's everything the other boys ca n't be . |
| 7 | ‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope . |
| 8 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 9 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 10 | Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 12 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless . |
| 16 | It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her . |
| 17 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 18 | Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true . |
| 19 | And as a stranger to my heart and me |
| 20 | When I die , pluck out my heart and you 'll find Calais engraved upon it . ’ |
| 21 | that came in my head and all I wan na do if money you can to I wan na love you , for my heart and you make me a brand new woman , you make me ha , you wan na |
| 22 | That affair left a permanent scar on my heart and I was afraid of reopening it . |
| 23 | I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’ |
| 24 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 25 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 26 | Something permanent happened to my heart when I watched him , a tough street kid , cooing over his offspring . |
| 27 | Ronnie , who also learned he is a grandfather , said : ‘ It broke my heart when I read her letter saying she had missed me . ’ |
| 28 | It broke my heart when I heard , and Nicolo — oh , he was so upset ! |
| 29 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 30 | ‘ You stopped my heart when you took that particular opportunity … ’ |