Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 2 | My heart leapt off the bedroom |
| 3 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 4 | Down below , Quigley shouted goodnight at me and I shouted back , and , at last , my mum tiptoed to the door and , looking fearfully around her in case Quigley saw , blew me a little , damp kiss . |
| 5 | My mum went to the doctor and says to the doctor . |
| 6 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
| 7 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 8 | I was taking Venturous alongside the jetty arm at Lowestoft on day to await the road bridge opening when Marty Stone , our second engineer , poised on the gunwale for a jump ashore to take the ropes , slipped on the wet rail and to my horror disappeared over the bow . |
| 9 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 10 | Most of the rock has bolted routes and my mind boggled at the potential . |
| 11 | Well my mind boggled with the iceberg and that . |
| 12 | The memory of my discomfiture fermented in the back of my mind for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ The first Svend knew that there was a search on for Suzie and himself was when my agent arrived at the house earlier this evening , ’ Rune told her calmly as he sorted through a small pile of leaflets . |
| 14 | My skirt flew off the world |
| 15 | Before 12 o'clock my horse came to the door , but I could n't put the book down . |
| 16 | One day as I arrived at the palace my horse shied at the sight of a white fragment on the ground . |
| 17 | My bravado emanated from the knowledge that a certain lady was looking out of her window . |
| 18 | Also my auntie went on the Pill and she became infertile . |
| 19 | My disillusionment began with the lecture . |
| 20 | However , I was wasting my time — my gaze slid across the surface of the pages like marbles on a shiny table-top . |
| 21 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 22 | ‘ My husband died in the war — not the last war , the first world war . |
| 23 | ‘ My husband collapsed on the lawn outside , but got up again to try and save our dogs from the side of the house . ’ |
| 24 | My husband stayed at the mine . |
| 25 | The friction burnt me , my imagination incandesced in the limelight of this magic lantern show . |
| 26 | My smile sank under the horizon . |
| 27 | An attractive smartly dressed blonde in her forties stepped out of the doorway as my taxi drew to the kerb and she climbed in beside me . |
| 28 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 29 | I was ruminating on his chances when my phone rang in the hallway . |
| 30 | yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car |