Example sentences of "[vb past] my [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I there soon experienced my first dealings with corporal punishment .
2 When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me .
3 It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic .
4 I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed .
5 Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie .
6 But the Jaguthin who became my close companions were summoned at night , during the full moon .
7 She became my legal guardian .
8 So Anna became my legal guardian .
9 Tony was one of the undoubted stars of the review and became my invaluable right-hand man .
10 became my intimate terror .
11 OBSESSIVE ‘ It became my personal obsessive battle cry , ’ wrote Mr Marshall .
12 Our local library , Macdonald Road , Edinburgh , produced a book on fishing that became my firm favourite .
13 Lincoln rapidly became my second favourite town , largely because of its fabulous cathedral .
14 From then on the hospital became my second home .
15 Therefore the new girl became my best friend and has been ever since ( with a few eruptions ! ) because she is a very loyal , trustworthy , non-possessive , generous and kind girl .
16 I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them .
17 I meant the hon. Gentleman , but he almost became my hon. Friend because of his grudging acceptance of the principle of testing .
18 People of all shapes and sizes became my biggest threat and a vital potential source of assistance .
19 I got my personal weapon and kit together , checked under the car , and headed for Angelo .
20 Finally I got my long-awaited appointment to see Dr John Randell , the ‘ patron saint of transsexuals ’ .
21 ‘ I struggled and twisted and got my right hand free .
22 I glanced at my reflection to admire the effect and then I got my second shock that evening .
23 As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ .
24 I got my current job in 1990 .
25 I got my new trousers
26 When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen .
27 South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever .
28 I got my first taste of the Masters with Tom .
29 Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands .
30 Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash .
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