Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would if I were my old healthy self . |
| 2 | If I were my patient , she asked herself , would I prescribe myself a tranquillizer ? |
| 3 | As I said , you must speak to me as if I were my father . |
| 4 | I was my hair every other day and usually only go to my hairdresser before a party . |
| 5 | As he recorded in the letters , he carried from his earliest years one overriding impression , which was quickly summarized : ‘ My Father was very fond of me , and I was my mother 's darling — in consequence , I was very miserable . ’ |
| 6 | He called me Louise , and seemed to think I was my sister . |
| 7 | I was in my own world , my wild crazy chosen world — I was my wild crazy chosen me . |
| 8 | I was my very own would-be killer . |
| 9 | I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas . |
| 10 | Says Murray : ‘ I was my room with a pal and after several drinks I started doing conjuring tricks — making cigarettes and bottle tops disappear . |
| 11 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 12 | I was the black sheep , you see , and Aunt Pamela did n't want the neighbours suspecting I was my father 's son . ’ |
| 13 | I was my mother 's daughter . |
| 14 | I was my own mistress — and so on . |
| 15 | I knew he was Greek , that he loved me because I was my mother 's child , and that a Greek will put family above every other consideration . |
| 16 | I was my own company er does management training and I wo n't touch the TECs |
| 17 | My conscience over that headache of an interview you 'd promised Cara — and me making believe I was my sister — was really getting to me . ’ |
| 18 | I was my Barclaycard |
| 19 | all of a sudden were going back on , on to it , are n't they ? , so when I was my eldest he was , he was |
| 20 | Which were my best subjects at school ? |
| 21 | The time was 10.6 seconds , which was my fastest legal time to date ( that is , the wind speed was below 2 metres per second ) and would turn out to be my fastest that year . |
| 22 | My friend , however , was adamant that we had both been abused in some way , though not sexually , which was my understanding of abuse . |
| 23 | In his dissertation , Of Personal Identity , Butler says that ‘ by reflecting upon that , which is my self now , and that , which was my self twenty years ago , I discern they are not two , but one and the same self ’ . |
| 24 | I left after a year and went to Cambridge in order to read Philosophy and Art History , which was my first degree . |
| 25 | Well I 've er turned the tape over after side one , which was my first lesson and I 'm now doing side two , which is this lesson and the idea is to look at the s way in which language is used . |
| 26 | The job that everyone considered bad was in the workroom , which was my absolute dread . |
| 27 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |
| 28 | Just think — the days when Leeds vs Bradford used to be the big game of the season only a few years back ( One of which was my first leeds game ! ! ) |
| 29 | I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock . |
| 30 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |